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The Farmer and 'the College





Farmers" weeé at t/ze Mzclzzgan flgriculz‘ural College lzas lzelpecl to estaolis/z t/ze. value

of Me college as a training ground for farmers. It lzas come to oe generally considered [be

wise t/Zing for toe young farmers to gain a college training. - Men trainea’ on tfle‘farin alone

can eée out a living and in some cases are laying promising foundations for a fortune from t/ze

soil, yet tfley are finding it increasingly difficult to male rapia’ financial gains. T/ze old—

est, most practical farmers woo nave closely ooservea' t/ze trena' offarin affairs are strong

est in t/ze fait/z in a college training. T/ze agricultural college cannot inaée a wise man out

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VOLUME CLVI. NUMBER THREE





DETROIT, JANUARY 15, 1921





 





 





CURRENT COMMENT





N his first message





L - 7 l to the legislature

2913 ("five Governor Groesbeck

Plans and commented oin the ev-

Problems or increasing demands





on the state and the

ever increasing burden of taxation, and

as a first step toward conservation and

economy urged changes in the meth-

ods of administration calculated to cut

out the waste and duplication in ad’

ministrative affairs. As a means to

this end he recommended the consoli-

datidn of state boards with related ac-

.tivities under) a single head or board;

the creation of an administrative board

to consist of the elecive officers of the

State to supervise all administrative

matters, and the creation of a state

department. of agriculture to take over

the administration of numerous laws

now enforced by various other agen-

cies. Early developments of the ses-

sion indicate that these plans and the

problems they involve will be among

the first to be given consideration by

the legislature.



The seriousness of this problem and

the importance of reducing adminis—

trative costs was well indicated by the

following figures submitted to the leg-

islature in the governor’s message:



“In 1919, the assessed value of all

taxable property in the state was $4;

503,980,981. The state tax levy was

$17,432,512.04. The rate per thousand

dollars of assessed valuation was $3.87.



“In 1921, the assessedwaPue Will be

approximately $4,800,000.000, and the

state tax has been apportioned at $17,-

378,328.35. The approximate rate per

thousand of valuation is $3.62.



“The taxes for each of these two

years were almost double the highest

amount ever previously collected for

state purposes. _



“The requests and estimates of our

departments, boards and insti‘utions

submitted to the budget commission

for the biennial period of 1921 and 1922

showfor the year of 1922 the sum of

$32,173,174.28. Besides this sum the

mill tax for the University, the Agri-

cultural College, the Highway Improve.

ment bonds, together with interest on

the war loan, and the amount neces-

sary to complete the state office build-

ing and general purpose requirement,

will amount to $7,375,000, or a total for

the year 1922 of $40,048,174.28.



“For the year 1923, the sums request-

ed in the tentative budget total $26,-

140,928.83; and the mill tax for the Uni-

versity5the Agricultural College, High-

way Improvement, and other fund re-

quirements,°total $6,625,000. or a tdtal

fOr the year Of 1923 of $32,765,928.83,

and ,a grand total for the biennial pe~

. riod of 572.814.103.11; ’. '



“These figures do not include any-

expenditures of the highway depart-

' ment for these two years.,This depart-

ment, under the law, derives its fund

tram the mo.t_or..vehicle, ‘driver and

,‘ehauflieur license. fees. The estimate

161’» departing. forthe‘year 1922.13





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siren. as. fees, licenseg etc,

to budget requirements,





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ments, bonds and institutions, the state





should receive $3,398,015 for the year

1922; and for 1923, $3,447,353. " *



“Deducting these amounts from the

total asked for these respectiveyears,

We should have the sum of $36,6é9,559.-

28 'raised'by genera! taxation for the

year- 1922 ;‘ ' and 52931857533 'raised- in

like manner for the year. 1923. ~



“Upon this basis the tax rate for

1922, using an estimate of five billion

dollars as tlye assessedavalue of taxa-

ble property, will be $7.33; and $5.86

for the year 1923. "



“These figures by no means complete

the story. The auditor-generalinforms

me that there is a deficit- in the

state treasury of approximately six

million dollars, with a strong likeli-

hood that it will be considerably aug-

mented by the close of the current fis-

cal year, namely, June 30, 1921.”



These figures show a very real nec-

essity for conservation and economy in





administrative affairs, and if a plan





 

 

 





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, ., p , $59 1190!!» tent? feed‘err‘a‘nd for-wantmf‘ . .,

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The result of yea-rsand perhaps a life

,time of proper care and feeding,.sup-





ported by systematic selection, is lost-





thrnugh careless methodsof. feeding.

The feeding of the mother, who must

nourish and build up the frame and

giveconstitutional vigor to the young

calf, is the true foundation for” a. profit-

able dairy cow, yet the average dairy

farmer feeds his pregnant calves and

heifers the waste feeds of the farm.

The best. feeds are‘given to the cows

that are giving milk. The very ele-

ments that are.needed by the cow at

this period are withheld. The carbon-

aceous foods, which giVe. heat and fat

to the animal are but little needed to

supply nourishment to the foetus; Sim-

ply material to build up blood, muscle

and bone during the rapid development





can be evolved which will bring about -while the COW 0'" heifer is dry is need-





these results it will be welcomed by

the taxpayers of the state. They also

show a real necessity for either strin-

gent economy in the matter of approp-

riations or the adoption of some new

method of taxation to raise the funds,

or both. Certainly the burden of tax-

ation on the farm and home owners of

the state should not be further increas-

ed. The legislature is confronted by

a serious problem in cutting the gar-

ment according to the cloth and satis-

i‘ying the ever increasing demands be-

ing made upon it without a further un‘

thinkable increase in the tax rate. The

elimination of waste in administration

is the right place to begin the solution

of this problem.





T this time of the





year every suc-



609d Feed cessful feeder of live

"19 ’3. stock is devoting spe-

Essential cial attention to con-





ditioning the females

in his herds and flocks. Breeding func-

tion or sexual power is built up and

made strong and healthy by good care

and a generous system of feeding

blood, bone and muscle-building foods.

Many stock breeders have been so busy

studying the occult mysteries of breed-

ing that they have lost sight of the

fact that generous feeding and suitable

environment are fully as important a

factor, in breeding improved live stock

as the mating of suitable sires and

dams. The mare, the cow, the ewe and

the sow will be more certain to breed

regularly, produce better ydung and

furnish them with an abundant supply

of nourishment if they are in good, vig-

orous, flesh-gaining condition at the

time of breeding, and then fed so that

they will gain gradually in fle‘sh and

vigor during the period they are carry-

ing their young.



If the farmer desires tohave his

mares breed regularly he must feed

them liberally and provide congenial

surroundings. Those who refuse to

feed the mares grain and turn them

out in the yards with no shelter other

than the side of a straw stack to make

them tough (to look at) never increas-

ed their strength or breeding powers.

Sexual vigor is the result of hereditary

tendencies that have been developed

by care and feeding. Even these her-

editary tendencies are usually due to

former, methods of care and feeding.



‘ The first cousin to the man who

wanted’to make his brood mares tough

is- the dairy farmer-philosopher, who

feeds his heifers .and dry cows scant

rations to prevent milk fever at calv-

ing time. The young heifer or dry cow

that is developing an unborn calf must

have plenty of feed to produce a. strong-

calf at birth and give a good flow of.

milk, but‘they do not always get it,

especially when feeds are, high in

price. Is it. any wonder )that some

heifers and cows fail to breed regu-

larly and produce profitably?

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ed to nourish the unborn calf. Calves

from such cows are frail when born

and rarely develop into good produc-

ers, and as for the effect upon the next

generation—there is no way of meas-

uring the damage done.



The quality of the pig crop and the

size of the litters farrowed depends up-

on the condition of the brood sows and

how they are prepared for the mating

period and fed during the period of

pregnancy. Some of the most success-

ful breeders claim to have had great

success in feeding the sows heavy

grain rations for ten days or two weeks

before breeding them for another crop

of pigs. By using rich protein feeds

during this period the sows will get

with pig safely and produce more Vig-

orous pigs than is the case when they

are allowed to begin the breeding sea-

son in poor condition.





‘ N another column of



this issue Iappears

a communication from

the Kent County Farm

Bureau which was in-

spired by an. editorial

appearing in» the December 25 issue of

this journal relating to the proposed

changes in the form of our county gov-

ernment.

' While the text of the communication

indicates an interpretation of this edi-

torial which in part was not intended,

the very fact that the farmers of this

leading agricultural county are not

only alert to the significance of the

issue but are especially organized'to

meet it, is a matter for congratulation.

A citizenship that is awake to its op-

pdrtunities and obligations is certain

to keep the ship of state sailing in safe

waters. '



In line with the inference made, in





County

Govern-

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hopedithat





tions everywhere throughout Michigan





will give the question or county gov-





ernment a prominent place in their diam





cussions this season tethe'ond that

the course may be' chosen which brill

bring political equality and justice ‘83

between rural and city folks. . i





‘News. of the week

Wednesday'pdanuary 5. I





AT the opening of the Michigan

state legislature the fact is reveal-

ed that the budget to be asked ofthat





body by the Ivari’ous departments and





institutions: of the. suite approximates

$72,000,000.—The federal house of. rep-

resentatives passes the'resoiution pro«

viding for the revival of the war

finance corporation over President Wil-

son’s veto, and thereby makes the



measure a law.~ .



Thursday, January 6.



MARQUIS OKUMA, .ex-premier of

Japan, declares responsibility for

world competition in’ armaments is be-

tween Great Britain and the United

States.+Individual~ members of the

council of the League of Nations are

considering the advisability of sending

an envoy to President-elect Harding’to

present the case of the league—A

slump in ocean traffic has caused the

withdrawal of large passenger ships

in the British-American service.~0fli-

c1al reports indicate that France has

sufficient coal to supply her needs for

the next six‘months, and that con-

tracts with American companies have

been cancelled—Reduced railway

rates become effective in Canada, the

cut amounting to thirty-five to forty

per cent on freight and ten per cent

on passenger fares. * »

Friday, January 7.





THE domestic production of copper



for the year 1920 amounted to 1;

753,000,000 pounds.——The first ship-

,ment of gold received from the Orient

for a long period arrives in New YOrk

from India—The house census com-

mittee agrees 'to fixing the membership

of the house at 488 members, an in-

crease of forty-eight over the present

membership—Seven lives and possibly

more are believed to have been lost

With the ‘United States-Alaska mail

boat Pulitzer.—Commodity prices at

wholesale fell 6.2 per cent during the

mointh of December, according to Dun’s

1n ex. ,





Saturday, January 8.



THE French government has decid-



ed to insist on the strict fulfill-

ment of the Spa agreement concerning

coal deliveries by Germany—JFrance

indicates a desire to have an American

representative present at the allied

conference on German disarmament

and reparations.~——The annual conven-

tion of the farmer-labor cooperative

congress is held in Cleveland—By la.

unanimous vote, the senate of Califor-

nia adopts a resolution asking the na-

tional government to agree to no treaty

with Japan that would nulify the anti-

alien land law of that state—Six per-

sons perish in a. hotel fire at England,



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the editorial referred to, rural citizens A k





should look with apprehension upon

any attempt to modify or destroy that

feature of our county government

which ties it up to ev‘ery locality, and

before giving their consent to any

change they should thoroughly satisfy

their minds that the proposals possess

increased desirable features and fewer

faults than the form they are intended

to displace.





While on the one hand a people

should not allow themselves to be

handicapped by a form of county gov-

ernment unsuited to their changed so-

cial and economic conditions, they

should remember that the present

county government is the product of

years of careful study and experience

running through the various conditions

of stress and strain occasioned by the

rapid development of the country.

These experiences should not be set

aside-readily for an. untried prbgram.



Not the. least encouraging feature of

the situation as it now stands. is the.

fact that the farmers of Kent county:

and possibly of'other counties or the

state? have already . organized fo-jstudy

whims; .Onfihsetae heedxfih ma-

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Sunday, January 9.





INABILITY to determine who was



elected at the recent Cuban elec-

tions promises to develop a political

crisis which may necessitate another

American intervention—The Italian

government agrees with a number of

American syndicates for a supply of

wheat sufficient to last until the Com-

ing harvest.-'——President-elect Harding

resigns as United StatesuSenator from

Ohio—Alberta wheat is being shipped

to Europe through .the Panama Canal.





» Monday, January 10.

FREIGHT rates from Puget Sound,





ports to the United Kingdom are '





cut—The ‘United 'Mine Workers of

America are raising a fund of one mil-

liqn‘dollars to aid the coal miners of

Alabama in their fight with operators.

~All negotiations looking to peace .in’

Ireland have broken down, according

to reports -from official circles.

. Tuesday, January 11'. .



HE New York Automobile Show

‘ is being attended by large crowds

and dealers report an early indication

of aggressive buying this season.—*-The

Unite-(3:: States Senate is considering





charges that the British government





is exercising surveillance over all; the





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, 1 “Wine _
HE eviis of excessive farm ten~



ancy and absentee land owner-

} ship are generally recognized,

but Illinois was the first state to make

an official investigation of the. subject.

Illinois has the highest percentage of

tenancy of anynorthern state, almost

half the farms being rented. In some

of the richer counties of the corn belt





the percentage runs as high as eighty





or more.



Coupled with this high percentage

of tenancy is a large amount of ab-

sentee land ownership, the most aggra-





vated case of which is the Scully es-

tate, owning forty-eight thousand acres _





of the richest land in Illinois. In ~Liv-

ingston county, one" of the five richest

counties in the'Unit‘ed States, twenty

per cent" of the farm land is1~owned by





' persons living along'the Atlantic .sea—





board.



Renting conditions in Illinois had be-

come so unsatisfactory by the winter

of 1919 that a number of bills were in-

troduced to better the situation. The

legislature, feeling that it lacked the

infOrmation to act intelligently, author-

ized Governor Lowden to appoint the

“Illinois Farm - Commission” of five

members to investigate the subject and

make recommendations to the next

session.



Speculation in farm. land, inflating

prices to a point far beyond its real

producing value, is the underlying

cause of most of the-evils of farm ten-

ancy, according to the commission’s

report, which has just been made pub-

lic. High land prices make it increas-

ingly difficult for tenants to become

land owners, and induce landlords to

push rents up to a point as high as the

traffic will bear in an attempt to se-

cure a return on their inflated invest-

ment.



The commission makes the following

four specific recommendations:



‘1. A transfer tax of one per cent on

all farm land resold within one year.



2. A “tenant right” law, to compen-

sate tenants for improvements put on

the land at their own expense .



3. Legislation to provide for local

second mortgage association, and to

improve the position of second mort-

gages as first-class security.



4. An appropriation of $25,000 to the

farm management department of the





University of Illinois to make an inten-

sive tenancy and land ownership sur-

vey of several typical communities.



Conditions will not be greatly im-

proved, in the opinion of the commis-

sion, until speculation is checked and

land prices kept somewhere near ‘its

productive value. The tax of one per

cent! on all resales within one year

would help materially to check specu-

lation, in the opinion of the commis-

sion. It may be taken for granted that

if a man resells a farm within a year,

he bought it for speculative purposes.

There are exceptions, of course, as in

case of death, which could be provided

for in the law. The tax suggested is

a» very mild one, as is the period to

which it applies. The commission felt,

however, that even as ,light a tax

would help; and that once the princi-

ple is established the rate can be in-

creased la‘ter if necessary.-



The full statement of the commis-

sion on the question of a tenant right

law is as follows:



“With the large percentage of. ten-

ancy in this state, the tenant necessar-

ily is an important factor in maintains

ing the soil, and he should be encour-

aged and protected in his efforts to do

so. Thereforewe recommend a ten-

ant right law, properly safeguarding

the rights of both landlord‘ and tenant,

to encourage the tenant to build up

the soil and the farm generally. This

law should provide for reimbursement





 

 

 





 





of the tenant at the termination of his

lease. for the improvements he puts on

the land with the consent of the land-

lord. It should also protect the land-

lord against the unnecessary destruc-

tion of his property by a careless ten-

ant. This would encourage both good

landlords and good tenants.”



A bill covering this subject was in-

troduced in the Illinois legislature two

years ago and will be reintroduced this

winter. The bill will probably go some-

what further than the commission re-

port, providing for compensation. for

the tenant, with certain safeguards, ev-

en if the landlord did not consent to

the improvement.



The commission did not recommend

the formation of a state farm land

bank, feeling that such a step might

not be necessary if the federal land

banks get into operation soon. It did

feel, however, that some means should

be provided to finance liberal second

mortgages with local capital, in order

to enable young farmers to buy land

on the easiest possible terms consist-

ent with safety. The commission be-

lieves that this second mortgages bus—

iness may be handled by local loan as

sociations incorporated under a specia

law enacted for that purpose.



The thought behind the request for

a $25,000 appropriation for a tenancy

survey was that such a. survey would

provide much fundamental information

that would be of great‘help in guiding





 





 





 





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Gets 419 Bushels Per Acre.





c 11 an cy in Ill

2in Suggestions in W fizefl Meéigem Farmer: Ml] Be Interested ..





future action on the tenancy problem;





Such a survey should collect the'com-

plete history, if possible of every

piece-of land and every land owner in

the territory surveyed.



'The committee arrived at its conclu-

sions after holding seven public hear-

ings digesting practically all' the avail-





able literature on the subject, and'





questioning a number of experts. The

public hearings were held at typical

points throughout the state.



“Few tenants living under unfavor-

able conditions appeared at til'ese

hearings,” says the report. “They

would naturally refrain from coming

before the commission and telling of

the bad conditions under which they

were living, as in many cases such ac-

tion on their part would terminate





their leases, yet there was a fairly rep—‘





resentative attendance of landlords

and tenants of the better class at each

meeting. They gave an' apparently fair

report of the conditions under which

the land is farmed by both owners and

tenants in each locality.”



Contrary to the opinionswidely pro-

claimed, the commission found prac-

tically no evidence to warrant it in

condemning the one-year lease. “Most

of the landlords and tenants took the

ground,” says the report, “that where

both the parties were satisfied a long

term by the tenant naturally followed.

On the other hand, if either party to a.

long-term lease becomes dissatisfied,

it makes very unpleasant working con-

ditions between the two, which could

not be terminated until the expiration

of the lease.



Absentee landlordism was con‘

demned by the commission in discuss»

ing conditions in central Illinois. “Many

of these farms,” it says, are owned by

absentee landlords who generally take

little interest in community life or in

maintaining their farms.”



The live stock share system of leas-

ing was found to be by far the most

satisfactory. Under this system both

landlords and tenants were found to

be prosperous and satisfied in the great

majority of cases. This system, of

course, cannot be used on grain farms

but even there the share renting sys-

tem was found to be far superior to

the cash plan. There is comparatively

little cash renting in Illinois.





Filling the ' Home Pork Barrel

.Horw “ Urze/e Dave” Cornered a PVee Part oftée Meat Market

By J. Hug/z MeKemzey





sey’s Corners? is the champion



home pork maker in our end of

the county. Because of this little no-

toriety he has come to be his own

packer. When the neighbors found out

that a better brand of pork was being

turned out right at home than the big

abbatoir would supply at double the

price, they weren’t slow in patroniz-

ing the local industry. So it came

about that hog-killing times at the

Ramsey farm were “red-letter days."

Along in January when the weather

had settled zerowards and promised

to stay there, one might look any

morning to see a wreath of :smoke as-

cending fromr Uncle Dave’s killing

house. This was a signal that every-

thing was in readiness and was- sure

to be promptly responded toby half a





UNCLE DAVE RAMSEY, of Ram-





_r-dozen stalwarts—with visions of real

“country sausage and spareribsoready





 





has. he- be p





dred-pound cross of Berkshhe and

Tamworth.



“Well, I don’t pay any attention to

the moon, not being much on astron-

omy, if that’s what you mean," he

laughed. “I do look to- the marketing

end though, and this seems a good

time from that standpoint. People like

beef and poultry during the holidays,

then they want a change, and there

is a call for pork. I try to have my

hogs ready when the demand is likely

to be greatest.”



By this time hog number one was

ready for scalding, the killing having

beendone carefully and/with no 11n-

necessary encitement. A ‘ gambrel

stick, uniting its hind legs, was then

inserted for convenience in lifting the

carcass to the scalding platform. . Un-





‘cle Dave’s. method of handling was





unique. Instead of all hands expend-





ing their last ounce of. strength in





sensing two hundredWeight of dead

to make the job





 





almost child’s play, and perhaps that

was the reason helpers were so plenti-

ful. An old-fashioned sweep-pole, that

I suppose did duty in the days of “the

old oaken bucket,” was fastened by

means of a swivel joint to the top of

an upright post. By attaching the gam«

brel to the short end, the carcass was

easily lifted from platform to scalding

vat and back again. Later, the same

contrivance carried it to a horizontal

pole to which it was hung up.



While another victim was being cap-

tured and put through the scalding

vat, Uncle Dave proceeded to dress the

one strung on the pole. First, it was

thoroughly washed down with warm

water, carefully scraped with a knife,

and then rinsed off with cold water.

Next, came the ‘opening’ process. Here





considenable caution was exercised in





order not to cut or ruptule the intes—

tines. Then, with the removal of the





entrails, more fresh, clean water was.

used._, and the carcass _Washed on the





inside. Everywhere «cleanliness W02.

the first consideration. "There,” said

he, putting the finishing touches to his

work, “that one will be all drained out

and ready for cutting up in the morn-

ing.”



Well,

but the moon was beginning to show

itself when Uncle Dave doused the

last pail of water on the fire and sang

outi “Hurrah boys, for

Glancing back at the long rows of

clean white carcasses stretching clear

and cold toward the ground, I could

appreciate the real beauty of the hog.

Then getting a whiff from the kitchen

I was ready to agree with Dr. van

Dyke that “the course of empire was

greased with the bacon, figied on the

way." ,



The following morning I was on

hand to help with the cutting.‘ .With

the help of the sweep pole we got the

first carcass down onto the chopping

bench, square on his back ,



“Now the first thing we’ve gotta

do is to take off the head ” rams





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that job was finished at last,





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‘ worked up into headcheese will make

i a dish fit for a house of lords.”





through the middle with a saw, after son there is less danger from spoiling.

which the hams were cut off about “Now, then, for the spareribs.

two inches furward of the pelvic bone,

slicing at nearly right- angles to the

foot. “If you cut square across the

carcass," he explained,,“the ham ‘will

be pointed “and will have to be trimmed belly, the knife

more, which means waste. On the oth- avoid gouging the bacon.

er hand, if cut exactly at right angles

to the foot, while the ham will be

square, the bacon will have a sharp

corner, needing to be trimmed extra.





steady spell of cutting, sawing and





ears and. thence down through the “that is, if one doe: the job right. We ed. A number of barrels'that had m min: " ‘ ‘ ._

mucking hole to the throat. “By taking have to have them well rounded not hiring outside after a thorough scrub- more of it and less of the ,saltpetre

{the bone out, that jowl will go as a so much because they look better, but bing, were brought in to serve as eon- than most people do ”-

[pretty fair piece of bacon, and the pate too much fat prevents meat from cur- tainers for the meat during the curing

ing properly. By exposing the lean process.



meat as much as possible, ittakes the,

.‘The backbone was then split down pickle more readily, and for that rea- ed,~“dry cure or brine pickling?”





being held flat to sufficient for each one hundred pounds





The foregoing manoeuvres were car- salt, two pounds of brown sugar, two

ried out as many times as there were ounces of saltpetre and one ounce of that is, the top pieces will go in the

carcasses to cut up. After a pretty red pepper.





   





 

 





“Which is it to be, uncle?” I inquir- tween each succeed 1ng layer, after





which the wechooled brine was poured

"Oh, the brine,” he replied, "it takes over it and the whole weighted down





You, less labor, and there isnt the risk if with a large stone.

have got to be a little careful or'they the weather don’t stay cold. I’ve seen

are too spare or too generous.” In per- a good deal of dry- -cu1ed pork spoil

forming this operation rile cutting was during a muggy spell.”



done from the back side toward the





“Well, that’s done,” I remarked cas-

ually as the last barrel was finally

weighted down.



“Far the present. yes, but it’s a case

you can’t hurry, ” was the rejoinder.

of meat, censisting of eight pounds of “In about a week that meat will all

have to come out and be leversed,





Accordingly, we prepared a brine





These ingredients were bottom and the bottom pieces on top.

stirred into four gallons of hot water Ten days later the overhauling has to





You see, I’m trying to compromise be— chopping, intermingled with sundry until dissolved, after which the mix- be repeated. It takes from four to six





tween the two extremes.”

, Inserting a knife between the third es of cut meat began to accumulate.

and fourth rib the shoulders were soon So between the dissection acts, I was

cut off. “Hams and shoulders take kept tolerably .busy carrying them to

quite. a good deal of trimming no mat- the smoke house. Finally, the scene





Michigan Agricultural





VOTE TO CONTINUE MICHIGAN

WOOL POOL.





meeting is to discuss problems of ele-

vator management, organization financ-

ing, sales service, and problems com-

EVER AL hundred wool growers mon to all cooperative elevators.

gathered in the Kerns Hotel, W The “£9qu department began Jan-

ing, last Friday to discuss the wool nary 3’ With F- H« Sanford in charge.

situation. Fifty of them were duly He is asking that the names of farm

elected representatives of counties and bureau members W110 are cutting fence

spoke for approximately eighteen thou- 905‘ timber 01' expect to cut 900“, be

sand farmers who had pooled wool in sent to the county agents to be for-

the State Farm Bureau pool. The meet- warded to the state office. On Friday

ing lasted only two and onehalf hours. Mr. Sanford called into conference the

It was characterized by an undaunted forestry experts from all parts 0f the

determination to continue pooling for state for a discussion of legislative

another year and to hold the present problems.

stock as long as the State Farm Bu- Arrangements for the better market-

i-eau thought it advisable. Confidence ing of maple products will be made by

in the present work (if the State Farm a committee of ten from the Michigan

Bureau regarding wool handling was Maple Syrup Makel's’ Association in

recorded in a. special motion to that conjunction with the forestry depart-

effect. ment on January 14. The association

Most of the delegates had come in. has taken a ballot by mail concerning

structed. Some of them reported that the best method of handling their prod-

their counties were definitely in favor UCt- Seventy-two per cent 0f the mem-

of holding the three and one-half mil- hers favored a central canning and

lion pounds of wool now in storage for marketing plant whereby the product

another year. The final concensus of would be Standardized and 301d under

opinion was that the management of registered label and according to the

the pool should be left entirely un~ grade. Twenty—eight per cent of the

hampered. Upon the suggestion of the members were against this move and

State Farm Bureau the delegates pass- eight per cent declined to express

ed a motion for the appointment by the themselves.

chairman of two wool men who would Mr. J. W. Nicholson, manager of the

act in an advisory capacity similar to seed department, is on a short tour of

the organization of the other depart- northwestern states helping the Grimm

ments. alfalfa growers of that section to or-

. A. E. Illenden, member of the execu- ganize. The example of the Michigan

the committee was chairman of the State Farm Bureau has proved an in-

meeting. He and A. J. Hankins, mar- centive to the northwestern farmers.

keting director, made detailed reports Offer of cooperation has been a further

upon the expenses of the wool pool. inducement. Mr. Nicholson appears on

The delegates asked many questions the program at Ames, Iowa, during

and seemingly left the meeting with a Farmers’ Week. Tuscola county has

very definite impression of the exact added itself as a departmentof the

situation. A 1esolution was passed State Farm Bureau Seed Department,

favoring the passage of the national bringing the total to forty-three.

truth- insfabric bill The purchasing department is mak-

. Delegates wele particularly interest-'ing a thorough investigation of the

ed in the manufacture of wool into purchase of binder twine.

blankets. Some were in favor 0f the the various commodities is developing

farm bureau proceeding along this line beyond all expectations.

as far as it was thought advisable. F. E. Coombs, traffic commissioner

Such manufacturing was shown to give of the Michigan State Farm Bureau,

the wool grower double the price for was appointed representative of the

his product and give the buyers Of Michigan Live Stock Exchange at a

blankets a. virgin W001 article 0f supe- recent meeting in Jackson to go before

riot grade at a comparatively low the Inter-state Commerce Commission

m at Chicago on January 11. Mr. Coombs

' will attend hearings on freight rates

relative to the minimum weight of dif-

. ferent classes of live stock allowed by

ANAGERS of coopelatiVe elevat- railroads on straight and mixed cars.

are from all over the state, in- The present minimums for inter-state

*' .fiuding those of the forty- two associa- shipments are 12,000 pounds of sheep,.

”tions which are members of the State 17, 000 pounds of calves, 22,000 pounds

Farm Bureau Elevator Exchange D9- of cattle, and 16, 000 pounds of hogs.





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FARM BU RE‘AU NOTES.





 





explanations by Uncle Dave, the piec- ture was allowed to cool.





weeks altogether for a thorough cur-



“A little saltpetre' helps to keep the ing. Then, if freezing weather is over,

natural color of the meat,“ observed it is hung up in the smokehouse and

Uncle Dave, “but it has the drawback a smudge kept going far two or three

of making it dry and woodlike. Sugar weeks, after Which it goes into sacks.





N i ‘

buildings where meetings will be held

are being prepared.



As for recreation, on Tuesday night

REDUCED railroad fare of one and Vigitors Will be entertained at the M.

one-third has been secured by Ash- A- CsNotre Dame basketball game.



ley M_ Berridge’ chairman of the com. While later in the week, if tentative

mittee in charge of plans for farmers’

week, to be held at M. A. C. from Jan. of all the movable property of the col-

uary 31 to February 4, and as a result 1639 Will be held-—HENSHAW.



the number attending from all parts of



the state is expected to be greatly in-



creased.



Indications are that the great annual

round-up of the state’s agricultural in-

terests will be fully as significant as .

last year’s when the general policies

of the Michigan Farm Bureau took def-

inite form. The change in the business





PLANS FOR FARMEBS’ WEEK

,TAKE DEFlNlTE FORM.





 





 





KENT FARMERS ANXIOUS oven

couu'rv GOVERNMENT

pnoposms.





HE following communication was

written at the request of the citi-

zens’ committee of Kent county duly

chosen at a mass meeting to discuss

situation of the nation has brought the the county government proposition,

farmer face to face with critical prob- and was adopted by the Kent County

lems and the farm bureau at its an- Farm Bureau:

nual meeting is expected to put forth “In the Michigan Farmer, (issue of

a definite constructive program. December, 25), appeared a very fair

Second only to the farm bureau bus- editorial on the subject of “Our County

iness session will be the meeting of Government.” However, the writer will

the agricultural division of the Michi- be pardoned if he states that many

gan Bankers’ Association, which will Michigan farmers with whom he has

convene for the first time in connec- conversed regarded the editorial as

tion with farmers’ week. Inasmuch as favoring this proposed innovation in

some of the most knotty questions now county government. Perhaps this was

facing the farmer are financial, this not the intent of the editorial, none-

meeting is' attracting deep and wide- the-less ' this interpretation of / it is

spread interest. Representatives from quite general in Kent county. Frankly,

each of the county bankers’ associa— it is felt that The Michigan Farmer

tions will be present for the 'sessibns, _did not go quite far enough in its an-

which will be held on Tuesdy and Wed- alysis of this proposition. After refer-

nesday of that-week. At Tuesday of ring to the submission of a constitu-

ternoon’s meeting, which will be an tional amendment necessary “before

open one, it is planned to secure as anything could be accomplished in

speakers bankers and agricultural county government reorganization” it

leaders of national reputation. states that the sponsors of the move

The list of illustrious men Who will ment desire “that the voter of the sev-

be at M. A. C. for farmers’ week, which eral counties should elect the type of

already contains the names of Presi- government to be used, thusforcing

dent Marion L. Burton, Governor Hard- the issue on no one, but giving the

ing, of Iowa, S. S. McClure, thefamous people of any county the opportunity

publisher, and others, has been aug- to better their form of government or

mented by that of Lee L. Driver, di- experiment in that direction.” Experi~





Business in‘rector of the bureau. of education in ment is a most excellent word ’in this





Pennsylvania, who will give an illus- connection. , , ,

trated lecture on Thursday night. “if the .next session of the legisla-

,Assembling of the various exhibits ture submits such an amendment to

is rapidly going forward. Probably the the Constitution it will certainlyi'carry,

display of grains which won high hon- since Detroit, Grand” Rapids, Flint, Bay

ors and much favorable comment at City, Saginaw, Kalamazoo, Battle

Chicago recently will attract the great- Creek, and other cities will be able to

est interest. In this exhibit will be the carry the referendum. '

twenty-two samples of Rosen rye “It is worthy of note that this pro-

which led their field at Chicago. The posed amendment had its inception in'

horticultural department is also bend- the very cities above named. Not one

ing every effort to outdo all other per- outstanding state leader who lives in

formances in its annual show in the the open. country has had any leading

armory. ' part in promoting this movement. ,

Arrangements for entertaining the “Is 5.; true that the issue is forced

thousands of guests are already being on no (me? We are speaking now for.

made. Available room within easy Kent county. Outside of the :city of





pertinent, have been invited to ameet The liVe stock men want a uniform reach of the college in East Lansing Grand Rapids, the farmers; buttress





 





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on January 18 at the Michigan Ag- system on all roads with a lower min- and Lansing are being listed and signs men, professional mam—the ventilation -

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labor and investment expenses.





‘ hogs.





‘the use of grain.





EEDS ,. are approaching a level

which makes advisable a friendlier

attitude toward the market. The





greater OppOsition to bearish pressure}





on prices, which stands out as one of

developments of the

past month, offers some evidence that

the bottom on values is not distant.

Notable price changes must yet be re-





,f corded, however, . but these doubtless





will be confined to the fe'edstuffs which

have not followed closely in the gen-

e1al trend toward lower levels. In re-





_.cent weeks, for instance, linseed cake





and meal have been under strongest

pressme, and the-- belief prevails that

the flaxseed by-product must yet de-





i cline further. This protein concentrate

was slow‘ to join .in the declining pro-





cession of’prices and is yet at a dis-

parity. This is true also of bran, which

is now selling at an actual premium

over shorts on many important mar-

kets. Alfalfa and other varieties of

hay also must decline further. Most

other feeds are approaching bottom.

Operators in feedstuffs'm'arkets are

centering their attention on the fluctu-

ations in corn. They recognize that





‘the coarse grain has entered, or is

j about to enter, a period'in which the





country movement and the ,price chang-

es will place the market in a more

certain light and that material changes

in the position of corn will have much

to do with the trade in other commodi-

ties used in live stock feeding‘opera-

tions. A bullish demonstration in the

corn market would offer much encour-

agement to the handlers of other feeds

and might even lead to a broadening

in the demand from the consuming

trade and thus strengthen all prices.



On the other hand, recessions in corn,

which are probable in face of the fact

that values already are cheap and be-

low cost of production, would merely

stimulate the present extremely bear-

ish tone of the general feed trade. Corn

is now quite cheap and at a possible

disparity under. most feedstuffs, which

is somewhat favorable to the grain.





N what direction c0111 prices will



fluctuate is dependent more upon

the movement from the country than

on the demand situation. The demand

prospects are not favorable to a sharp

upturn in prices. Cattle markets are

in a demoralized condition and feeders

are not receiving even first costs on

their stock to say nothing of feed and





are fewer cattle on feed, far less than

a year ago, and this is'true also of

On the basis of the current mar-

ket, hogs are above a parity with corn,

and if hog prices are maintained, corn

may hold up better than. the trade as

a whole anticipates; in fact, advances

may be recorded. But there is serious

,doubt as to the position of hogs. Feed-

ing requirements of corn are being

further reduced by the comparatively

mild weather inmost sections of the





.country, the abundance of other feeds





and the/tendency toward economy in

An extensive dealer

in corn who a year ago up to this time

sold more than a fourth of a million

bushels to feeders in one preminent

feeding community reported recently

that his carlqt sales to 'cattle operators

can be counted on his fingers. The

corn products industries, tea, are buy-

ing very sparingly



There has been a slight increase in

the movement of corn, but the extent





of the increase has been rather disap-

7‘ limiting in: view of the immense sur-

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By Sander: Soy/amt!





from the country cannot be gained for

another month. With country roads in

good condition; the remainder of Janu-

ary and ferepart of February may be

used as an accurate gauge of the prob-

able marketings from the interior. This

is usully the period of largest receipts

on markets of the country. Observers

of the trade as a whole anticipate a

heavy movement, due to the disap-

pointing level of cattle, the weakness

in hogs and the large surplus available

in the important producing sections.

And no little significance is attached

to the fact that many farme1s are in

need of cash and will dispose of muCh





com despite dissatisfaction with the

price. Cash corn is now selling largely s





between sixty and seventy- -five cents a

bushel on. markets of the middle west,

with the aveiag'e price paid fa1me1s

around forty cents, a bushel and even

less at points more distant from termi-

nals. The price will hardly cover the

costs to farmers. Pressure of 1ente1s

com on markets may be an important

bearish factor





RICE changes in the cat market

have been extremely narrow the

past month, slightly higher if anything.





On middle west terminals, including

Chicago, the price is holding around

fifty cents and down" to forty-five cents.

No important demand prevails on mar-

kets, but with extremely light a11ivals,

which are usual f01 this season of the

year, values a1e holding filmly. A lath‘

er bullish influence in the cat trade is

the belief that country elevator stocks

are light and that the surplus in farm-

ers’ hands is smaller than has hereto-

fore been believed. Still, this is offset

in a large measure by the compara-

tively heavyv stocks at visible supply

points of the country, which amount to

more than thirty million bushels, dou-

ble the total a yea1 ago. Bulls in the

cat maiket will doubtless encounte1

strong opposition in fo1cing values up,





,majority sentiment leaning to the view





that values may yet undergo further

declines to a parity with corn.





EAKNESS in linseed cake and



meal is attributed to the liberal

stocks of the product on hand at crush-

ing plants of the northwest and east

and the inability of the trade to pro-

vide shipping instructions on both new

and old orders. Instructions on some

linseed cake and meal due more than





 





 





Soy Beans on Light Soils





 





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HIS leguminous crop when out

green yields a hay higher in pro-





portion than alfalfa. The field shown

w‘as very “lean" sand land, which had

failed to grow clover. It was fall-plow-

ed and well worked until June 3, and

the beans were drilled with a disc

grain drill shallow in rows twenty-

seven inches apart, using half a bushel

of seed tothe acre.‘ They were a per-

fect stand and many of them stood as

high as a man's waist when ready to

cut.



The crop was cultivated four times

———once to conserve moisture in a dry

time. _When other beans were a com-





aplete failure in this locality the soys

_ suffered but little and when rain did





come they grew rapidly and began to

pod well. ‘We began cutting Septem-

ber 12. The pods were then about an

inch leng. An ordinary six-foot cut

mower was used, taking three rows at

. raked into wind-





 





was yet cm the





They shattered but little and when in

the‘cock shed rain admirably. From

three bushels of seed costing twenty-

one dollars, twelve tons of cured hay

was obtained. A two-horse, one-row

cultivat'pr was used for cultivating,

and for the last two cultivations this-

tle sweeps were attached instead of

the regular shovel teeth.



.‘The plants develop an immense sys-

tem of hair rootswhich deep cultiva-

tion would ruin. The sweeps produced

a perfect dust mulch and left the

ground level for the mower. The lto

San variety was grown and the seed

was inoculated by the glue method, the

culture being obtained from the De-

partment of Bacteriology at East Lan-

sing. Soy beans do not run the land

as do millet or some of the‘boosted

grasses of the seed company type, and

they produce'a high protein hay. My

cows are being fed’on them at present

and they eat them with as much rel-

ish as they do alfalfa.



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Fccdmg Reduce





Botfi Commercial and Home Grown Food Przces Are on or Mar Bottom Level:





sixty days ago have still not been re."





ceived, and, with buyers facing losses





of $25 to $30 a ton on some purchaSes, ,

they a1e naturally slow to provide: div:





rections. Demand

mains extremely





1'1om feeders, ”re,-

light. nor are" the





prospects for improvement in demand '

Favorable weather, ”the '





encouraging.

abundance and cheap price of corn,





about half the cost of linseed feed,- are '





expected to continue a strong check

on buying.



Minneapolis crushers are offering

linseed cake and meal around $39 to

$40 a ton, basis that market, for car-

lots, about $8 a ton less than a month

ago. The eastern markets are slightly

under this basis, the almost total ab-

sence of.foreign demand depressing

prices. So long as foreign exchange

rates remain at a sharp discount, and

there is little likelihood of material im-

provement for some months, European

demand is not expected. Another bear»

ish influence in the domestic market

is the comparatively liberal imports of

flaxseed from Argentina,_which con-

tinue on a large scale despiteythe low

prices 011 United States terminals. The

weakness in prices for flaxseed natur-

ally make for easier notations on lin-

seed l'ccd.

ficulty being experien’bed", by Crushers

in disposing of their linseed oil is re-

ducing operations in. the northwest and

east, thus- 'eflncir‘g the pioduction of

cake and mi. But it is not yet time

to accumulate stocks of the protein

concent1 ate





HE trade is not so bearish on cot-

ionseed cake and meal, ,but there

is nowhere evident any strong bullish

manifestations. The best bullish argu-

ment is the low price at which the con-

centrate is selling. At one We with-





   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





On the C‘wil hand, the dif— '





in the past month prices ranged. down .





0 $22 a ton in Texas and about $25 in

Arkansas, but there has since been a

bulge of about $1 to $2 a ton. Prices

in the middle wesr. and central states

feeding territory average around $35 a

ton for forty-three per cent protein

cake and meal. Some improvement

developed in the demand situation,

that is, for feeding account, but appar~

ently the surplus stocks in commercial





channels are too great to permit a

strengthening in prices. The stocks

in'crushers’ hands are liberal, and





many jobbers and operators are bur-

dened with holdings bought at higher

prices. Foreigners are taking very lit-

tle cottonseed feed, and the inquiries

from Europe are very light, indicating

an almost total lack of interest.’ The

south is badly depressed over general

trade conditions, and crushers are car.

rying on their sales department in a

manner which

bulge in prices, though values already

are actually below a pre-war basis.

Cottonseed feed around $20 a ton, Tex-

as, for forty-three per cent protein, and

011 a similar basis in the southeast is

a iavmable puichase, yet prospective

buyeis who are pinched for credit need

not necessaiily accumulate stocks for

sharp or even material upturns in priCo

es ale not in sight. Values, it seems,





will continue to fluctuate Within a very, .





na11ow lange and tend slightly down-

waid.





NE of the rema1kable features'in V.

the trade in wheat millfeeds is the?





discount at which shorts are selling

under bran.

bran has commanded a premium of

about $1 a ton over glay shorts ’

middlings, the first time in man

and one of the very. few





 





history of the mil ng dud -‘ 5*, . 1

some nailed. states that 7 ‘





is not favorable to a-





Within the past week, .
rl





j ted in the price structure.

or five months ago gray shorts





 





 

 

 





é-the' present time.





‘ the narrowest margin prevails between liberal scale.





BESS;





into the offal.





OOPERATIV E marketing, farm nullified its effective provisions, and it



008i accounting. and farm efli- is rumored that it is due for a veto.”



ciency were among the outstand- ' '

ing subjects discussed at the eleventh

annual meeting of the American Farm S

Economics Association held in Wash-

ington during the week ending Janu—

ary 1, 1921.



In his address on “The Adjustment

of the Farm Blésiness to Declining

Piice Levels,” 5‘: I C. Taylor, of the

Office of Farm Management of the

Depa1tment of Agriculture, quoted his-

tory showing that Will. is always fol-

lowed by high pricg n a disas-

trous slump. He Sanil; that the main

the sudden collapse in farm prices was

due to underconsumption rather than

over-production. In the present in-

stance, however, the cost of living on

the farms remains relatively high.



The economic and legal status of col-

lective bargaining was discussed by C.

Morrill, of the Bureau of Markets, who

said that when the Sherman anti-trust

measure was before congress back in

1890 the need of exempting farmers

from the provisions of the bill was dis-

cussed and an amendment to that ef- Trade Commission >

feet added to the bill. When the bill , '

was passed, however, the amendment “The big practical problem 0f the

had disappeared. He argued that the 13*“ thirty years and 0f today,” 0011'

Volstead collective bargaining bill, as cluded Dr. Durand, “is how to avoid

it was passed in congress, does not [the gluts and famines, the sharp, disc

permit the federation of farmers’ co- astrous fluctuations of the live stock

operative associations under a central market place. That problem Shoum be

sales organization. The bill in effect solved right, before the farmer takes

seems to give additional jurisdiction on anything more.

to another agency of government to in— “It does not seem likely that the

' vestigate and regulate cooperative nearest road to this solution lies

marketing associations; but it “does through the farmers’ cooperative pack-

not take away anything from the De- ing plant. The mistakes of coopera—

partmcnt of Justice in anti-trust law tive packing plants in the past need

enforcement. As federations of man to be charted, and experiments design-

keting associations do not come under ed to avoid past pitfalls need to be

the Volstead bill they go back to the made, but the main heave of the farm-



3. Sherman anti-trust law. er’s energy should be applied squarely

‘ Mr. Horrill said he did not look upon on the proposition of getting animals

the Volstead bill in its present form to the present markets ina steadier

as accomplishing a great deal of what flow. Everybody will be a gainer by

the people are looking for. it, if it can be accomplished. I am



Ashnr Hobson, of Columbia Univer- against any concerted action with the

_ sity, in discussing the fundamentals of object of curtailing production. of live

cooperative marketing, said he believ~ stock. Let us first try to learn what

7;" ed that success in marketing coopera- the supply is and where it is, and then

.‘ tion will come through efficiency rath— see to it that its daily flow shall be

" or than elimination of private profits. steady as possible. The effect of such

Cooperation which does no more than a policy should be to assure a steadier

eliminate private profits is on the high price throughout the year, so that one

road to starvation. The success of small producer who risks his work of

farmers‘ cooperatives depends upon a year or tWO or three, on a single

their ability to furnish .a continuous market day, will have a fairer chance

supply of standard products. of coming out with a reasonable ‘sum

' The necessity of having alongside of money instead of taking the gamble

thekmarketing association an educal he now muSt take.



w movement was emphasized by “The coordination of farmers’ live

’ A. Lyman, of the National stock shipping associations, the form-

{d d Farm Organizations. In re- ing of large cooperative commission

to farm legislation, Mr. Lyman houses in the markets where they are

”it took Intent to get the Volstead not already established, the creation

w congress Months were of a Special information service to or.

“ lganize the flow of stock-«t ‘ .





OME interesting facts and figures

on farm tenancy were given by Pro-

fessor B. H. Hubbard, of Wisconsin

University. Tenancy is much more

prevalent in regions of high-priced

farm lands than in sections where the

prices of farm land are low. In Ohio

there has been a decided decline in

tenancy in twenty yea1s,accmding to

the 1920 census. In the North Atlantic

states faIm tenancy has demeased

since 1910, while in Iowa it has in-

creased slightly. It is evident, con-

cludes Dr. Hibbard, that farm tenancy

and ownership have reached a balance,

with no prospect of a landed aris-

tocracy.



"The Packer and the Farmer” was

the subject of a discussion by Dr. W.

Y./Du1and, of the Federal Trade Com-

misison Dr. Durand wanted it dis

tinctly understood, however, that what

he had to say was his own personal

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Only users of bran naturallybeneflt by this.

The situation in millfeed reflects the

. e selling at a premium of around general bearish feed” situation created

.3” a ten over bran on markets of the by the abundance of corn. Hog produc-

ocuutry, which differential is practical- ers are substituting ,the coarse gram ~-

y equal to the entire market value at for brown and gray shorts, but dairy-

Under normal de- men, the principal buyers Of bran,

mud and supply conditions and even while substituting partially other pro-

curing this season of the year when tein feeds, continue to use bran on 11

Another factor contrib-

. bran and shorts, the differential is sel- uting to the abnormal price relation

dom less than $4 a ton. Feed manu- is the technical “shert” interest. in

tacturers who, du1ing the period of the bran; that is, market operators OVer-

sharp differential, reground bran into sold on the offal and now find they are

‘fgray shorts" with the use of a low- unable to obtain the actual feed to at};

grade. flour, of course, ‘cannot now en- ply. on their speculative contracts. But

gage in that very remunerative busi- the over-sold condition is not serious

instead, the mills are turning and will not long she-felt, for those who

but a considerably higher quality bran bought the bran on a speculative basis

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work down in price, while shorts are ex





pected to remain 111111131311 can be

bought around $26 to $27 a. ton in Min-

neapolis and $25 to $26 in Kansas City

for January shipment, with Chicago

and St. Louis around $29 to $30 a ton;

Brown shorts are as much as $5 a ton

under these figures and gray about $1





a ton less.





in the forage market.





trend in alfalfa. :





 





ests. .So it is probable that bum wn; «gran buyerssof'ha 111111119 .1111 a





~measxtre by‘ the: emergency reduction.

on the rate of $15 a. ton from Idaho to

Kansas City. .the largest market, pro-





ducers had been unable to move their .





hay at a profit and thousands of tons





freight tariff was cut down to $10 a

ion. In the past month alfalfa declin-





. , . .. ‘. ed about $3 a ton to a. top around $24

' XPECTATION Sol a further .decline



in alfalfa hey are almost general

Timothyand

clover mixed will follow a declining

The' bearishness is

based on the recent emergency reduc-

tion in freight rates on. alfalfa from

the Pacific Northwest, and Idaho. by





a ton in Kansas City and around a top

of $28 in Chicago. Timothy in Chicago

is bringing up to $27 a ton and clover

up to $23. Demand for alfalfa and

tame hay is extremely light, demorali—

zation in the south being a serious

price- depressing influence. . Feeders

generally will buy hay. spaiingly so





the Union Pacific and Oregon Short long as values are maintained about





fmt. Possibly the cooperative acqui

sition 0f the stock yards should be fav-

cred, if there are contracts to assure

that the packers will buy in the yards,

and pay yardage on any animals they

buy.”



The farmers’ emergency 11111113111

is now being considered by the senate

finance committee, of which'Senatm

Boies Penrose, of Pennsylvania, is the

chairman. Senator Penrose is opposed

to the emergency tariff bill, saying he

believes it to be hasty, ill-advised and

savoring of class legislation. He thinks

both tariff and revenue legislation

should be postponed until the next ses-

sion of congress. Sentiment of the bus-

iness interests, which will be the first

considered, is thoroughly hostile to

any legislation which would limit for-

eign trade, according to Senator Pen-

rose. The Federal Trade Commission

has furnished the senate finance com-

mittee with information on world trade

conditions, which it is claimed, pre-

sents the proposed legislation as ill-

timed and impracticable. It is predict-

ed on good authority that a combina-

tion of senators from the eastern man-

ufacturing sections and the south will

be able to defeat the emergency tariff

bill, or if it passes the senate they will

be. strong enough to prevent a move

to pass it over the President’s veto.

Exhaustive and time, consuming hear-

ings on the bill will delay its progress

in committee, and ~ Representative

Green, of Iowa, who is interested in its

enactment, says that if it is held up

until March, or even for thirty days.

he doubts whether it will do much

good. “By that time the flood of for-

eign goods which the bill is designed

to shut out will be pouring into our

ports.”





HE Sundry Civil Appropriation bil

has been the source of much dis

cussion in the house. One of the Winds

of dispute was the Muscle Shoals ni—

trate plant project. The plant is al-

ready erected and equipped for the

production of nitrates for military and

fertilizer uses, at a cost of $71,000,000.

To operate it successfully will require

the completion of the Wilson dam

across the Tennessee river, on which

$17,000,000 has already beenexpended,

and $45,000,000 is the total estimated

cost. The friends of the project are

asking for $10, 000, 000 to continue the

work on the dam through the present

year. All the farm organizations rep-

resented here are back of the bill, as a

means of freeing the country from the

Chilean-British nitrate monopoly, and

assuring the farmers a supply of ni-

trate fertilizers at a low cost, . _

Hearings are being held before the

agriculture commitment the home on;~

than»: manage-111111 111}.





Lines to Missouri River points. Michi~





$20 a ton.-





Farm Interests at the National Capital

. Varzom Sllé/t’dli are Now 86272;; C oszZ'reJ ——By E. E ngfioldj “ '





fore the house TWO plans for elimi-

nating grain gambling are presented

in these bills, one to tax the bucket

shops out of existence, the other to

deny them the use of the mails or oth-

er means of ti ansmitting or receiving

information S. W. Tator, formerly of

the Federal Trade Commission; C. H.

Hyde; of Oklahoma; H. L. Middletwon

of Iowa; William W. Eckard, of Illi-

nois, and T. D. Hammett, members of

the American Farm Bureau Federation

Committee of Seventeen, have given

testimony before the committee. The

committee of seventeen, it is evident





from the testimony, is not unreserved- ‘





ly in favor of these bills to prevent

dealing in futures unless a system is

developed to. take the place‘of our pres

ent marketing machinery. It was stat-

ed that the farmers of the southwest

are against future sales. It was also

emphasized that information as to who

is buying and who is selling should be

made public, and that some law should

be enacted providing that a man can-

not sell grain unless he has the actual

grain to sell.





On January 3, President Wilson sent

a message to the senate; announcing

his veto of the resolution reviving the

War Finance Corporation activities.

The senate immediately passed the

resolution over the President's veto by

a vote of fifty-three to five, and the

following day the house passed the

measure over the President’s veto by

a vote of two hundred and fifty to six—

ty-six, and it became a law. The War

Finance Corporation will be revived at

once, accordingto the officials, but it

'will be some time, possibly two months

before it can begin making loans for

export. While the corporation has a

book balance with the treasury of

$375,000,000, the use of this money for

loan purposes will require the issuance

of treasury certificates of indebted-

ness. - ‘



Gray Silver, Washington representa-

tive of the American Farm Bureau

Federation, said that some means

must be provided which will give the





farmers access to the great reservoir '





of. credits. If the farmers could de-

posit such commodities as they pro-

duce in warehouses, taking a receipt

as provided in the United States ware-

house act, and use these warehouse

receipts as a basis of debentures, this

would bring about“ the desired result.

If the farmers could go into the money

market and buy credit with security

on their crops it would relieve the 10-

cal banks. There should be some plan

worked out whereby these warehouse

receipts could be gathered up under





some ouch system as the Federal Farm

Loan banks, and 111011-111» debentures. .

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were thus withheld :But a heavy move- ‘

ment already is under way since the,





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produced on the farm back on

the soil, yet all are not equipped to

pass it through the stables because

they do not keep enough live stock to

utilize all of it in that way. So a good





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the habit of letting the stacks rot down





before spreading as was formerly the

case, as this has been shown to be a

wasteful p1 actlce.



When is the best time to spread the

fresh straw? Usually this job is gaug—

ed by convenience with other farm





wv‘ork so we get it spread some time in





the fall, winter or early Spring. Our

practice has been to make it a fall or

winter job because the earlier we can

get it out the better‘ the results ob-

tained.



I 1emember one year we hauled rath-

er strawy manure and some fresh

straw over a good portion of clay

ground in one field along in February

and March, this field having been in

clover that year. It was broken for

corn in March and April, no rains of

any consequence have fallen on the

straw beILOre being turned under. Mod-

erate rains followed plowing, but after

the corn was planted and up several

inches dry weather set in and since

the layer of fresh straw and manure

tended to destroy capillarity the corn

wherever the straw was put suffered

terribly from the dry weather. The

plant food contained in both the straw

and manule was not available, the

straw shut off the moisture from the

plants, and no good 1esults weie ob-

tained at all that year.



This was not the first experience of

the kind, but it was so forcible as to

change our system of management

somewhat in order to get the straw out

before spring. The best plan has been

to spread it as soon after threshing or

clover hulling as possible. This is

eithei in August or Septembei, before

corn bushing, and during days of husk-

ing when the corn is too damp to husk

Well. . , .



Straw spread any time up to the

middle of January becomes pretty well

beaten down and decays somewhat be-

f0re plowing time. Occasionally we

are forced by Ciicumstances to spread

st1aw and strawy manure after Janu-

ary and even up to April, but I have

learned that it can be handled in a

way to avoid any bad results for I be-

lieve that one should not 'withhold

st1aw from the soil when good results

may be obtained f1 om its use by prop-

er handling.



When late spreadng is done it will

be well to use a thin even appilcation.

This can be best accomplished by us-

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straw, or a st1aw sp1e.ader Spreading

by hand is hand to do without leaving

the straw bunchy.l-1Dry bunches are

difficult to plow under well.



A great advantage can be secured

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This will help- to mix the straw with »

' the topjs'oih so that there will be no





likelihood of-‘the straw forminga layer

between the bottom of the fur1ow and

the ove1tu1ned soil. Mixing the straw

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' decomposition of the st1 aw and makes





it available as plant food in a shorter





, time.





. Anyone can readily see the advan-

tages gained through such practice

Whether the ,Straw is spread in the

spring or fall. The better our fertiliz‘





,ing material is mixed with the soil the

' better results we get from them. Our

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I have one hundred and sixty acres of muck, subsoil is clay.‘ I

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comes to rotating crops, our trouble begins. Oats and barley. will

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‘our trouble‘begin‘s.” In a very



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up the difficulties which perplex the

muck farmer. He can grow individual

crops on muck but the matter of man-

agement of a muck farm is a question

which he has by no means fully an-

swered; Our office has outlined a. sys-

tem-of muck farming in which we have

considered ensilage, hay, sugar beets

(or small quantities of intensive truck

crops), and live stock as the elements

to make up a sound system of muck

farming. Notice that the grains are

not included. The consensus of opin-

ion of most men of long experience on

muck is that small grains are risky

and do not prove as profitable as other

lines.



The' reason for this lack of confi-

dence in small grains and the factors

concerned may be of interest to the

muck farmer. Oats and barley do not

“stand up.” Another reason is that a

hard frost in the late spring or early

summer, which is quite common, will

practically ruin a crop. Furthermore,

the heavy growth of oats and barley

has a tendency to smother out the

seeding.

so true for a. seeding in rye). .In pass-

ing, it may be well to note concerning

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son, that the plats which grew well

and were-properly fertilized with pot-

ash and phosphorus or manure escaped

a. frost completely while on the plats

next to them without fertilizer the

frost had a. disastrous effect. This was

particularly true with corn. We had

no small grains, however, onthis ex-

periment.



Why do small grains lodge and fill

poorly on muck? It has been estab-

lished in other states and verified in

this state, that the lack of minerals

will result in these abnormalities.

Muck soils which are not fertilized be-

come deficient in phosphorus and pot.

ash sooner or later. This deficiency is

manifested in a weak stem and poorly

filled grain. That this fertility factor

is not ‘the only reason for lodging is

quite evident when We recollect that on

rich prairie Soils" lodging is quite a

common trouble. Observation for sev

eral years hasgiven us reason to be

lieve that the lodging is not only due

to lack of minerals to a great extent,

but to an equally large extent it may

be due to the improper handling of the

soil. I will outline this point briefly.

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of grains which because of short straw

and early maturity are better adapted

to muck than others. For example, the

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in nitrogen; this nitrogen is made

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much better-than when the soil is 'com-:





pact. Lodging is caused by (an unbal-

anced growth which appears to be ov-

er—stimulation with nitrogen. In order





to repress this nitrification, the soil.





should. be kept as compact as possible.

Now, in addition to this, if the proper

minerals are added the growth should

be normal; that is, the'plants should

grow a normal stalk and fill normally

without lodging. I am assuming that

if the muck is shallow it has a. clay

subsoil and does not need potash, and





that good liberal applications of acid.





phosphate, about four hundred pounds

to the acre, is sufficient. However, in





the proper rotation on deep muck, ma-r





nure and phosphorus should be used,

the manure to supply the potash and

the bacteria necessary for inoculation

which will keep the muck soil in ideal

condition. -





This matter of manure on muck de-

serves a more detailed discussion,

which will be taken up at some other

time, but it is sufficient to state here

that at'this time of high prices f01

potash, a good muck farmer Will see

to it that he has enough stock to make

manure so as to have light dressings

once in four years on every part of his

farm. To obtain the full value of the





manuye it should be cared for so that





no leaching is allowed. Five tons of





manure to the acre, with two hundred!

and fifty pounds of acid phosphate

should maintain the fertility of muck

It must be kept

in mind that manure is applied on





land of good quality.





muck for a totally different purpose

than that on high land. It also holds

true that we plow under crops on

muck _forientirely different reasons

than on upland soil.

abundance of humus and an abundance

of nitrogen, while uplands usually lack

humus and nitrogen. Presuming that

the manure is applied to the beet ,or

the ensilage crops, there will be

enough. potash remaining to supply the

grain; with'the' addition of two, bun





dred and fifty pounds of acid phosphate





this should tend to stiffen the straw

and prevent lodging. The importance

of rolling must not be overlooked—

thorough rolling and firming of the soil

is absolutely paramount in growing

grain on muck.





”Alfalfa can be grown successfully on-





muck. I will refer the reader to my

reply to a letter in the Michigan Farm-

er a number of weeks ago, in which I

discussed the matter of alfalfa on

muck. Alfalfa Can be grown on muck

which is well drained. Experimenta-





tion has not been sufficient to recom-.





mend alfalfa but there is no question

about sweet clover. The value of white

SWeet clover on muck is just becoming

apparent. In our experiments and dem-

onstrations we have had 'splendid re-

sults with it.



It is important to note in cenclusion

that fields of rye on muck in which the





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have yielded well and have been nor-

anal in their stem and seed growth

Last year in Croswell, Dr. H. H. Lear

‘mont grew rye on a large acreage in,

which a phosphorus, potash (no nitm





, gen) fertilizer. was used. The fertiliz-





ed area indicated almost twice the

.yield ‘over the unfertilized strip. Vari:

'eties of oats and barley which are rap-

.id in maturing and haVe a short straw

are the types which Should be used by

the muck farmer. -



Muck land in a high state‘of fertil-

ity will grow wheat. Keeping'in view

the opinions of the men of experience

on muck that small grains on muck are

not as profitable ‘as other lines of gem





ture, it is true that many farmers have

a muck patch on' which they contem-

plate growing rye,, oats 01 barley. To

these farmers, I would outline the fol-

lowing in conclusion:



1. Keep the muck as film as possible.



_2. Fertilize with a potash, phosphoric

acid fertilizer (no nitrogen).



3. Seed grain, at least, one-third

heavier than the usual amount on the

upland.





4. Use varieties adapted to muck





soil. . EZRA LEV-IN,

Department of Soils, M. A. C.





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POTATOES.





 





Owing to grasshoppers and the dry

weather conditions of past seasons and

consequent lack of seedings, I shall be

forced to plant potatoes in the same





field where I had potatoes last year.





This field was a. sod (clover and June





. grass) manured and plowedlast spring;





I will have enough manure to- nearly

cover this field again this spring. This

is a sandy soil. Do you think it. will

pay me to use commercial fertilizer?

Kalkaska Co. R. H.





I am of the opinion that under your

conditions it would be advisable for

you to use. a fertilizer containing at

least two per cent nitrogen, four per

cent would be better: This is espe-

cially true of the portion where you do

not use manure. You would also want

at.1east eight per cent phosphoric acid

and possibly four per cent of potash. ,



In case "you cannot buy a fertilizer

containing these percentages locally,

perhaps you can'secure' the nitrogen in

the form of nitrate of soda. or sulphate

of ammonia. and the phosphoric acid in

the form of acid phosphate and mix

the twO yourself.

would find it profitable ‘to use a ten

per cent potash as that is supplying a.

very large amount of very expensive

plant food. If you have access to wood

ashes, especially the lunleached form,

they Will be a very good source of

potash.



In/applying a fertilizer be sure to

have it thoroughly mixed with the

moist soil. One way of doing this isto

use a grain drill with~ a. fertilizer at:

taehment, making the application be-

fore planting. If you have access ‘to a

potato planter which has a fertilizer

attachment it would be even better to

apply the fertilizer with the planter.

If you are obliged to sow the fertilizer

by hand be sure to do it early in the

preparation of the soil so that it can

be harrowed thoroughly into the soil.



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county during the year 19.20: (1) the

organization of the Gogebic County

Farm Bureau of three hundred farm-

ers, and the establishment of locals‘in





Bessemer, Wakefield, Erwin and Iron-





wood townships; (2) the employment

of a county veterinarian by Gogebic

county for the eradication of bovine

tuberculosis; (3) the organization of

the Gogebic County Cow-testing Asso-

ciation of thirty-three members; (4)

the organization and development of a

winning live stock judging team; (5)

the placing of ten pure-bred Holstein

and Guernsey Sires on farms of the

county; '(6) the placing of eighteen

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garden clubs with a membership of

twelve hundred; (10) the holding of

Wm big picnics of farmers and girls’

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; of dynamite for land-clearing at a sav-





ing of $4,200, also the shipment of lime

and acid phosphate; (12) the establish-

ment of eight grain-growing demon-

stration plots with the use 01‘ lime-

stone and acid phosphate; (13) the

shipment and distribution in the coun-

ty of two earloads of cattle and one

carload of Green Mountain seed pota-

toes; (14) eight stump-blasting and

ditch-digging demonstrations with the

aid of a Dupont dynamite expert.





Mr. Gunderson is justly proud of his

boys’ record as stock-judgers, first at

Chatham, where they won first, then

at the state fair at Detroit, then at

Atlanta, whither Carl Johnson was sent

at the charge of the county board of

supervisors, and finally at' Chicago,

where Michigan lost to Georgia by the

difference between 998 and 965 points

out of a possible 1,350. It is felt that

not only has Gogebic county gained

honor by their achievement, but that

the boys will have derived permanent

benefit from their experience.





Branch Farm Bureau Office.



The Michigan State Farm Bureau

Executive Committee have taken fav-

orable action in regard to the estab-

lishment of a branch of the State Farm

Bureau in the upper peninsula. Secre-

tary C. A. Bingham, A. J. Hankins, of

the Lansing office, and Robert Blem-

huber, of Marquette, have taken the

subject under consideration. It seems

to be understood that the cities will be

located in Marquette or Escanaba.

Either place seems well located for

this purpose. . .



It is proposed to keep open the high-

way from Escanaba to Rapid River by

the use of a snowplow placed ahead of

two high-powered auto trucks—a meth-

od which trial has proven to be satis-

factory, it is reported. Marquette, hav-

ing encountered great difficulty in hir-

ing enough horses to operate its street

snowplows, has pretty definitely decid-

ed to have resort to a caterpillar trac-

tor for the purpose. As yet, however,

snow here is light, and while there is

sleighing, the roads are still sufficient-

ly open for automobile traffic as late

as the first week of January.





The Upper Peninsula. Development

Bureau is pushing the proposal to es-

tablish a ~pea-canning factory in this

district, and there is reason to believe

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saw-mill, for which $10,000 of capital

is said‘by the “Globe" already to have

been pledged, with $25,000 the ultimate

goal. A committee has been named to

proceed with the purchase of the nec-

essary, machinery, it is announced.

The Cloverland Dairyman’s Associa-

tion, of; which State Senator F. H. Van-

denboom is president, has published a

neat little booklet entitled, ”Better

Bulls for Cloverland,” which succinctly

sets forth the reasons why farmers

should use only pure-bred.bulls and ad

vocates cooperative ownership, where

individual ownership is impracticable.

These advantages are shown statisti-

cally in such a way as to appeal to the

most conservative. , '





Importing Foodstuffs.



The extent to which foodstuffs for

man and beast are now imported into

the upper peninsula may be inferred

from figures furnished me by the Du-

luth-South Shore & Atlantic Railroad,

relating to Marquette only. The Mar-

quette freight office of this railroad

received from December, 1919, to De-

cember, 1920, thirty-five earloads of ap-

ples, 160 carloads of hay, 222 carloads

of. meat, fifty-seven carloads of oats,

155 carloads of vegetables, one earload





 





 





Cloverland Trees Produce More than

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01' potatoes, one earload of butter. This

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interest to lower state farmers who

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In the pioneer period shipments

were received into the copper country

by way of such Lake Superior ports as

Copper Harbor, Eagle Harbor and

Eagle River. Portage Lake nearly cuts

the Keweenaw Peninsula, which con-

stitutes most of the so-called copper

country, nearly in two, and has its

drainage into Lake Superior at its

southeastern end through Portage Riv-

er. In its natural state, Portage River

had only some four feet of water over

the bar, but in 1860 the Portage Entry

Canal was opened, which gave access

to Portage Lake to vessels of deeper

draught. This was of great cemmer-

cial importance since by that time the

center of the copper mining industry

was shifting from the northeastern end

of Keweenaw Peninsula to the vicinity

of. Portage Lake. In 1873, a second

canal was opened into Portage Lake,

,this time from its northwestern end

direct into Lake Superior, thus afford-

ing\a through waterway across the pe-

ninsula, which has since been desp-

ened so that ships of the maximum

draught that navigate the Great Lakes

can pass through this “Keewenaw Wa-

terway.” Navigation by this route was





open, this year, for 222 days, reports.





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hindering the passage of the longest

vessels, and congress has authorized

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the season there is, of course, nothing

as good as the old hen, for properly

brooding chicks.

colony bI-ooders can be used with good

success.



As many as one thousand chicks can

be brooded with one coal-burning col-

ony hover. We find that a brooder

protecting about two hundred chicks

is the most satisfactory. Then they

can be allowed to remain in the house

until reaching broiler age without be-

ing overcrowded. When the broilers

are culled out and the prospective

breeding cockerels placed on another

range there is still room in the colony

house for the remaining pullets until

they move to laying quarters. Our col-

ony houses have all been eight feet

deep and ten feet Wide. But next year

We shall build some a little larger for





Start the fire one day before remov-

ing the chicks from the incubator as





this helps to take the dampness out of





the colony house and places the stove

in running order. Be sure that there

are no leaks where the -stove pipe pass~

es through the roof. Visit the tinner

and obtain a tin protector to use where

Also use a pro-

tector on top of the pipe. This will

keep water out of the stove when the

heavy rains come. If water trickles

down the pipe into the stove or upon

it, there is some. injury to the stove

and the fire may be put out in bad

weather when it is the most'needed.



A lbng strip of quarter-inch mesh

wire about five inches high is useful

to place around the edge of the de-

flector until the chicks learn the

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the birds to scratch and also hide their

feet and help to prevent toe-picking.

A half-inch of sand under the litter

makes a nice floor but it is not abso-

lutely necessary if sand is difl‘lcult to

obtain. But never use garden loam un—

der a stove brooder as it soon becomes

very dry and turns to dust and the

scratching of the chicks will keep the

air very unclean and unhealthful.



We find that it pays to empty the

ashes each morning and turn on the

draughts so that the fire will burn

briskly. This keeps it from dying

dow'n. Again at night we ,shake it

down and leave the draughts on for a

few minutes until sure that the fire is

in good condition to last throughout

the night. Just before retiring for the

night, I make the rounds of the colony





houses with a flashlight to see that all,





the stoves me in safe condition to

leave.



Never take a lighted lantern into the

colony house at night 01 it may cause

the chicks to scattel from the brogder.

Then it takes work to get them back

and some may be missed and become

chilled by remaining in_ the far corners

of the bodice away from the stove. A

flashlight may be snapped on and off

very quickly, enabling the poultryman

to make observations without frighten-

ing the flock.



A pail 'of coal in each colony house

saves time in caring for the brooder

stoves. Empty candy pails are useful

for this purpose, The middle colony

house can be equipped with a small

coal bin to act as a reseivoir to supply

all the houses.



Our chicks like the ashes from coal-

burning brooder stoves. The ashes

seem to contain bits of mineral matter

that the chicks crave. I have seen

husky chicks leave their scratch grain

to swarm on the cool. ash pan and pick

up bits of ash. The stoves are very

safe if care is taken in emptying the

ashes and none of the wooden roof of

a house comes in contact with the

stove pipe. The stove pipes do not be-

come very hot except when the fires

After the hard coal settles

down to burning there is plenty of heat

radiated under the hover but the gal-

vanized pipe leading to the roof will

be only barely waIm.



Last yeah we found the commemiai

chick g1 owmg mashes useful and pIOf-

itable in raising our chicks under col-

ony lmvers.' The hoppers filled with

the mash insured every chick a fair

chance to obtain the elements needed

for growth. A good dry mash seems to

reduce the dangers from bowel trouble.



It pays to spend‘a few minutes each

day in observing the chicks around the

brooder. Chicks that show signs of

pasting up can often be quickly cured

by giving each afflicted chick a drop of

castor oil from a medicine dropper.





1 Weak chicks that hug the stove and





do not grow are seldom profitable. The

other chicks will do better if the weak-

lings are removed, as chicks lacking in

vigor are sources of disease.

Substantial stove brooders are eco-

nomical as they are well made and

should last an indefinite time if given

good care after brooding season. We

take down our bi‘ooders as'soon as they

are not needed. Then all metal parts

are wiped with an oiled rag to prevent

rusting and the brooding equipment is

stoi‘ed in a dry room. When such

brooders can be used as much as ten

years and more, the cost per chick per

year for the use of the equipment is

almost negligible. Feed and fuel then

represents the cost of production aside

from labor, and it is surprising how

many chicks can be raised with a very





small mortality rate if the breeding . ;

Stock leg-cod and the chicks are gl eu-





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., discounted. most of theunlfavorable

business and industrial news. Stocks





:on hand are below the average for the





season‘atnd .with' fresh pork consump-

tion increased by the lower prices, sup-

plies are not expected to become bur-

Financial c‘onditions abroad

are against a big export trade although





the export movement based. on sales 5





during the fall months continues at the





. rate of 25,000,000 pounds of hog prod-





ucts a week, which is about an average

for the last twenty-five years, but larg-

er than during the years immediately





, preceding the outbreak of the War.





SHEEP MAR.KET OUTLOOK.





 





HEEP markets'have recently ab-

sorbed 'a slightly increased supply,





_“although the price has weakened. The





wool market andthe big stock Of froz-

en lamb remains as a heavyweight





'-and Seem‘vlikely to continue through-





out the winter. Low prices for other

meats also are a burden since dressed

hogs can be bought for eighteen cents

a pound, Chicago basis, and prime na-





tive steers at twenty-two to twenty-





four cents, while choice lamb carcasses

sell for twenty-five'to twenty-six cents





’ a pound. Feeders have lost enthusiasm





for buying their lambs and that divi-





’ sion of the market is dull, with a very





’ light outbound movement.





Census returns from fifteenrstates

show a sheep population of 8,130,118

head compared with 8,631,233 "head in





‘ V1910, when adjustment is made for the





difference in the, time of the year at





which the two censuses were taken.





Idaho, WaShington and OregOn, the





, only range states included, show in-





creases but all the rest of the states'





‘ reported on, including Ohio, show de-





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creases. The net decline in the fifteen





' states is slightly less than six per cent.





HOG PRICES WOBBLE.





 





HE recent bulge in the hog market

was'toogood to last. Supply has

expanded, especially after the Opening

day of the --week, and the average at

Chicago is again skirting the $9 mark.

Eastern markets were bare for a few





_ days during which shipping orders at





Chicago and St. Louis were volumin-

ous and these were. responsible for the

temporary improvement as the big

packers, though talking hopefully, are

keeping down' drove costs to the min-

imum.



Hogs and corn prices will ShOW a

profit in the converting process ’so





.. that average weights continue to run

. heavy for this season of the year and





there is a sharp premium upon the

light weights. Although current prices

show a profit in hog feeding, it does

not signify production should be ex-

panded.



The market gives promise of show-

ing alternate price advances and de-

clines with resulting contraction and

expansion of receipts, during the next

few weeks, without. getting far up or

down. Around $9 the declines strike

bottom as the present rate of consump-

tion of .fresh pork and current prices

for cured hog products, will support





. that figure.





I- the state.

. selecting representatiyes tO'meet with





souTH DAKOTA'FARMERS AND

BANKERS GET TOGETHER.





 





South Dakota is holding a. series of

farmer-banker conferences , throughout

County farm bureaus are





the bankers. Some ofthe subjects be-i





ing; discussed are the wool situation,

vr-gtain and live stock,

whose“ regsimilar tothe series of con-





and finance:





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Dr. Hess Stock Tonic is fed.





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whole herd thrifty. It expels worms. Always condition your cows for ca ving

with a course of Dr. Hess Stock Tonic before freshing. . ‘ _



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Remember, the better the appetite, the greater the food consumption, the

greater the milk production. Hence, good health, a strong appetite and

digestion are the absolute essentials of a big milker. , _





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usual number of nursery catalogs.

Among the number was one which es»



, pecially attracted my attention. It was

' a‘ gorgeous creation of red, green and

' gold with pictures which would tempt

a man to set trees even against his

better judgment. 1 was'used to suCh

things but I fell for one thing, after,

all. Among the pictures was a number

illustrating apple and pear trees load-

ed with luscious fruit and—wonderful

to relate—the trees had been set for

only one year. Acoofiling to the cat-

alog, the trees had been raised to hear-

ing age with special care and all \that

use needed was to set them in the

spring and gather a fine crop the same

year. Well, I bit; my wife says that

I bite on every new thing which comes

along;

confess that the bearing age proposi-

tion looked good to me.



I- ordered twenty-five. trees, ten

VV'ealthiesn ten Wines-raps and five

Northern Spies. The cost was $1.25

per tree and the trees were to be ten

l‘eet tall and caliper one and a half

inches. When the trees came they

had been cut back so there'was no

way of telling their original height,

but there was not one over seven feet

high and not one would caliper an inch

and some very much less than an inch.

A t‘ew of them were of fair quality but

the majority were either one shoot

with a few sickly branches near the

top, or else they were crooked, dwarf-

ed. measly looking runts with very

poor tops.



I soaked the roots for an hour in

lukewarm water and then heeled in

the trees in moist earth. I set them

the next day, taking most particular

pains to get the earth firmly packed

around the roots. I sifted the earth

with my fingers and used my fingers to

luck the dirt in among the fine roots.

1 was more careful than usual with

these trees.



About the same time I purchased of

a local nursery fil‘ty, two—year, apple

trees and set them in the same ground

but with less care.



Of the bearing age trees, ten died in

spite of the fact that I watered them

frequently and hoed them twice a week

besides keeping the cultivator going

between the rows. One tree had five

blossoms on but they dried up. The

others did not blossom at all and made

only an inch or two 01" growth on new

shoots. I have grave doubts whether

the fifteen that lived will ever amount

to anything as they are scrubs. I ought

to pull them and throw them away,

but I just can’t get up the courage.



Of the fifty others, not one died and

every one made. a satisfactory growth

and went into the winter in fine shape.

I shall have no difficulty in shaping

them into fine trees. As far as hear-

ing is concerned, I would wager on the

two-yeaf-olds to come into profitable

bearing sooner than the so-called bear-

ing-age trees.



I have set hundreds of trees; my

usual percentage of loss is a little less

than three per cent. The bearing age

percentage of loss was forty per cent.

Draw your own conclusions.——L. B. R.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





FARM ORGANIZATIONS GROW.

‘. HE Ohio Farm Bureau Federa-

tion announces that its total

membership is 46,258. Ninety-

five farmers are soliciting in conjunc-





yaig'ns‘ are being carried on. ‘

Oregon is organizing a State Farm

LBm'eau. A series of county meetings





7, tral agricultural organization whose

decision to form a State Farm Bureau

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Sprocket chain conveyor running over solid bottom.

Improved construction. Saves much fertility.





Lever at out regulates loads per acre. Spreads thinly or‘

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Pirect chitin drive mean: greater simplicity and durabil—

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' ' . ' , ’ Henry Cé‘Wallace, farm

A newly adopted sub-machine gun ‘ figfigi eisltg‘lepoftidputlo

.which is to 'be used by New York’s 1- ‘be’President-elect Hard-

automobile. squads in their efforts to ' ing’s choice for Secre-

clear the city of-bandits and: criminals. . ' tary Of‘ Agriculture

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HE GROUP of eight huge build-

ings shown on the right, will house

The Sixth Annual National Tractor

Show as no exposition of this kind

has been housed before. These build-

ings belong to the State of Ohio.

Their combined capacity is enormous.

They are all strictly modern—fire

proof, well lighted, scientifically ven-

tilated and heated—and connected

with one another by covered pass age-

ways. There will be excellent res-

taurant facilities on the grounds and

every provision has been made for

the comfort and convenience of

those who attend. '
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THIS SHOW is different from anything you ever attended. The manufacturers of tractors and



tractor Operated devices realize that tractor farming is still comparatively a new thing, in spite of

its tremendously rapid growth. They want to sell their products to farmers. But they know the

farmer cannot buy wisely if he has not the proper information behind his choice. So they have

arranged this show entirely as an Educational Exposition instead of trying merely to gain your attention

with a vast number Of violently competing commercial exhibits. National authorities will appear before

you on the lecture platform and give you authentic information on the best there is in tractor farming as

applied to your farm. You will find out whether a tractor can make money for you or not and in what

manner. You will discover what type of tractor is best suited to the conditions on your farm and how

to use it to greatest advantage. And the background of it all will be the biggest collection of tractors

and tractor implements that have ever been gathered together in any one place.





 





 





A College Course in Tractor Farming





Compressed into F our. Days





Here Is The Program





Feb. 8—Soil Conservation, F. I. Mann, Gilman, Ill.





Adapting the Farm to Power, Raymond Olney, Edi-

tor Power Farming.





Few men can p1cture, even 1n the1r own mmds, the tre- Determining Type and Size of Tractor to Buy, 1





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mendous.— growth of power farming. Rapidly it is changing

many of the established laws and methods of agriculture. Cer-

tainly today it is the foremost of all great opportunities con-

fronting the ,farmer in his work ' You will get real cash-value

information out of these lectures speeches and exhibits. The

talks will be delivered in a ‘special lecture hall and the program

also includes daily discussions, mass meetings, etc. There will

be moving pictures, band concerts and simi ar entertainments

of a .ighter kind, and your ticket of admission covers it all free.

Everyone who attends will have a good time and a profitable one.





Nationa’ figures like. Pres-Elect 'Harding, Sec. of Agr.

Mered’th, J. R. Howard, Pres. Am. Farm Bureau Fed., Joseph

Hirsch, Chairman Agr. Commission Am. Bankers Assoc, and





’ others have been invited to speak. The American Societies of





Automotive Engineers and Agricultural Engineers and a num-

ber of the foremost Agricultural Colleges will have educational

exhibits. And don’t forget that all of this 1s in addition to the

biggest display of tractors and tractor implements that has

ever been gathered.





W. Dickerson, Agr. Eng. and Ed., Charles City, Ia.

Feb. 9—The Trend of Tractor Design, J. B. Davidson, Io—

wa State College.

' Ignition Troubles, O. W. Sjogren, Neb. Coll. of Agr.

Tractor Hitches, Daniel Scoates Tex. A. &M. Coll.

Lessons from a Tractor Survey, G. W. McCuen,

Ohio State University.

Feb. lO—Lessons from Nebraska Tractor Tests, G. K. Shedd.

Neb. Coll. of Agr

The Tractor and Belt Power, Wm. Aitkenhead, Agr.

Coll. Purdue Univ.

What Is Tractor Service? J. B. Davidson, Ia. St.

College.

Community Purchase of Tractors, R. U. Blasin—

game, Penn. State Coll. '





Feb. ll—Tractor Tools, H. H. Musselman, Mich. Coll. of

Agriculture .





Coll. of Agr.



Tractor in Winter, R U. Blasingame, Penn. State

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CHAPTER V.



AN FAILING had been studying



nature on the high ridges; and



he went home by aback trail that

led'to old Bald Mountain. Many a man

of longer residence in the mountains

wouldn’t have cared to strike off

through the thickets 'with no guide ex-

cept his own sense of direction. The

ridges are too many, and they look too

much alike. It is very easy to walk

in a great circle—because one leg tires

before the other—~with no hope what-

ever of anything except the spirit ever

rising above the barrier of the pines.

But Dan always knew exactly where

he was. It was part of his inheritance

from his frontiersmen ancestors, and

it freed his wings in the hills.



The trail was just a narrow serpent

in the brush; and it had not been

made by gangs of laborers, working

with shovels and picks. Possibly half

a dozen white men, in all, had ever

walked along it. It was just the path

of the wild creatures, worn down by

hoof and paw and cushion since the

young days of the world.



it was covered like a sheep lane,

with little slit triangles in the yellow

dirt. Some of them were hardly larg-

er than the print of a man’s thumb,

and they went all the way up to a

great imprint that Dan could scarcely

cover with his open hand. All man-

ner of deer, from seasonal fawns with

spotted coats and wide, startled eyes,

to the great bull elk, monarch of the

forest, had passed that way before

him. Once he found the traces of an

old krill, where a cougar had dined and

from which thebuzzards had but new-

ly departed. And once he saw where

Woof had left his challenge in the

bark of a great pine.



This is a \eiy common thing for

Wool‘ to do— to go about leaving chal-

lenges as if he were the most- warlike

creature in the world. In reality, he

never fights until he is driven to it,

and then his big, furry arms turn out

to be steel compressors of the.first or-

der; he is patient and good-natured

and ordinarily all he wants to do is

sleep in the leaves and grunt and

soli’loquize and hunt berries. But woe

to the man or beast who meets him in

a fough-and-tumble fight. Unlike his

great cousin the Grizzly, that Ameri-

can Adamzad that not only walks like

a man but kills cattle like a butcher,

he almost never eats meat. No one

ever pays any attention to his chal-

lenges either, and likely he never

thought anyone would. They seemed

to be the result of an inherited ten-

dency with him, just as much‘as to





grow drowsy in winter, or to scratch

fleas from his furry hide. '



He sees a tree that suits his fancy

and immediately stands on his hind

legs beside it. Then he scratches the

bark, just as high up as he" can reach.

The idea seemed to be that if " any

other bear should journey along that.

way, should find that he couldn't reach

as high, he would immediately quit

the territory. But it doeSn’t'work out

in practice. Nine times out of ten

there will be a dozen Woofs in the

same neighborhood, no two of equal

size, yet they hunt their berries and

rob their bee trees in perfect peace.

Perhaps the impulse still remains, a.

dim, remembered instinct, long after

it has outlived its usefulness—just as

man, ten thousand years after his ar-

boreal existence, will often throw his

arms into the air as if to seize a tree

branch when he is badly frightened.





It was a roundabout trail home, but

yet it had its advantages. It took him

within two miles of Snowbird’s look-

out station, and at this hour of day he

had been particularly fortunate in find-

ing her at a certain spring on the

mountain side. It was a rather singu<

lar coincidence. Along about four he

would usually find himself wandering

up that way. St1angely enough, at

the same time, it was true that she

had an i11esistible impulse to go down

and sit in the green felns beside the

same spring. They alwaysseemed to

be surprised to see one another. In

reality, either of them would have

been considerably more surprised had

the other failed to put in an appear-

ance. And alwaystheyghad long talks,

as the afternoon drew to twilight.



“But I don’t think you ought to wait

so late before starting home,” the girl

would always‘say. “You’renot‘ a hu’;





man hawk, and it is easier to‘ get lost ,





than you think.” ~



And. this solicitude, Dan frig-htly, ‘fig—

ured, was a good sign. .Th‘eie was only,

one objection to it. It resulted in an

unmistakable inference than “she coir-

side1ed him unable to take case or him-

self—«and that Was the last: thing on

earth that he wanted, her .to think. He

unde1stood her well-enough to know

that hei standards were the standards

of the mountains, valuing strength and

self-1eliance above all things He didn’t

stop to question why, every day, he

trod so many weary miles to be with.

her.



She was as natural as a'fawn; and

many times she had quite takenaway

his breath. And onceshe did- it liter-,

ally. He didn’t think that so long'as

death spared himhe would evervbe





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4 quite knocked_.out his breath.





able to forget that experience. It was

her birthday, and knowing of it in time

he had arrangedfor the delivery of a

certain package, dear to a girlish heart,

at her father’s house. In the trysting

hour he had come trudging over the

hills with it,’ and fewy’ex'periences in

his life had’ever yiel‘dedsuéh unmiti-

gated pleasure as the sight of her

glowing, white and red, as she took off

its wrapping paper. It was a jolly old

gift, he recollected. And when. she had

seen it, she fairly leaped at him. Her

warm, round arms around his neck,

and the softest, loveliest lips in the

world pressed his. But in those days





‘he didn’t have the Strength that he





had now. He felt he'could endure the

same experience again with no embar-

rassment whatever. His fi1st impres-





sion then, besides abounding, incredi-





ble ,astonishment, was that 'she had

But let

it be said for him that he recovered

with notable promptness. His own





arms had gone up and closed around—4





and the girl had wriggled f1 ee



“But you must‘n do that!” she told

him.



“But, good Lord, girl! You did‘it to

me! Is there no justice in ‘women?”



“But 1 did it .to thank you for this

lovely gift. For remembering me—«for

being so good—and considerate You

haven’ t any cause to thank me.’ ‘



He had many very serious. difficulties-

in thinking it out. Andyonly ‘one can-





clusion was obtainableéthat.8nowbird ..

kissed as natu1ally as she' did 'aiiy--,

thing else, and the kiss meant exactly.





what she said it did and no more. But

the fact remained that he would have

walked a good many miles farther if

he thought there was any possibility

of a repeat. .





But all at once his fan,tasies.~were.





tent, dark features. It was a man about





suddenly and rudely dispelled by'.'_t‘he

intrusion of iealities. Even a man in

the depths of concentration cannot be

inattentive to the wild sounds of the

mountains. They have a command-ing,

a penetrating quality all’ their‘o'wm A}

mathematician cannot walk ovei a

mountain't'rail pondering on the fou1th

dimension when some living creature

is conSistently‘l cracking biush in the





thickets beside him. Human nature is;





directly oppOsed to such a thing, and

it is too much to expect of any man.





He has too many race memoiies of,

saber-tooth tigers, sp1 mging from their»

1air,s and likely he has heard too many‘

strode on doym the trail.-





bear stories in his youth.

Dan had been walking silently him-

self in the pine needles. As Lenno'x





had wondered at long ago, he knew





how by instinct; and instinctively be





practiced this attainment as soon as

he got out into the wild.. The creature

was fully one hundred yards distant;

yeti Dan could hear him with entire

plainness. And for a while he. couldn’t

even guess what, manner of thing it

might be.



A cougar that made so much noise





would be immediately expelled from'





the union.





A wolf pack, running by L;





sight, might crack brush as freely; but '

a wolf pack Would also bay to wake 1





the dead. Of Course it might be an 5





elk or a steer, and still more likely,a

bear.

sound grew nearer. ‘





He stOOd still and listened. The,





Soon it became evident that the.

creature was either walking with two

legs, or else was a. four-footed animab

putting two feet down at the same in-W





stant.

stood perfectly ‘ still.





Dan had learned to wait.





He I

' And gradually.





he came to the conclusion that he was,

listening to the footfall of another;





man.





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But it Was rather hard to imagine;





what a, man might be doing on this

lonely hill.. Of course it might be a,5

deer hunter; but few were the valley

sportsmen who had penet1ated to thisfg

fa'r’ land. The footfall was much tob

heavy for Snowbird. The steps were

evidently on another. trail that inter-





"sected his o'wn trail one hundred yards

'éfarther up the hill.

[stand still, and in an: instant the;

.would come in sight ,. . . :





He had only to

man;





He took one step into t31e thickets,

prepared to conceal himself if it be-

came ‘necessary. Then he waited.

Soon the man stepped out on the trail.



Even at the distance of one hundred

yards, Dan had no 1111111»;tu whatever

in recognizing him. He could not mis-

take this ta-,ll‘ dark form, the soiled,-

slouch‘y clothes, the ,ro'u'gh hair, the in-





his own age, his own height, but weigh-if,E

ing fully twenty pounds more, and the

dark, narrOw eyes could belong to no





tone but Bert Cranston. He carried his





rifle loosely in his arms. -~

He stopped at the forks in the trail





and looked carefully in all directions. ‘





Dan had every. reasonw t0" think that

Cranston Would see him at first glance.





'ionly one clump cf thicket Sheltered

7th But because Dan had learned the

.lesson 1 of standing, ”still,

olive-drab 'Sporting clothes blended





softly with the colored leaves, Crans-

ton- 'did not detect him. He turned and





He didn’t move quite like a man

with innocent purposes There was

something stealthy something sinister





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he never glanced to the trail for deer





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been hunting. Without. ever waiting

to meditate on the matter, Dan started

to shadow. him.



BefOre one hundred yards had been

traveled, he could better understand

the joy‘ the cougar takes in his hunt-*

"mg. It. Was thesame process—a cau-

tious, Silentadvance in the trail of'

prey. \He had to walk with the same!

caution, he .had to take advantage of

the thickets“ He began to feel a cur-

ious excitement. ,



Cranston seemed to be moving more

carefully now, examining the brush

along the trail. Now and then he

glanced upflat the tree tops. And all

at once he stopped and knelt in the

d1y shrubbery.‘



At fi1st all that Dan could see was

the glitter of a knife blade. Cranston

seemed to be whittling a piece of dead

pine into fine shavings. Now he was

gathering pine needles and small twigs,

making a little pile of them. And then.

just as Cranston drew his match, Dan

saw his purpose.



Cranston was at his old trade—set-

ting a forest fire.





 





CHAPTER VI.



OR two very good reasons, Dan

F didn’t call to Cranston at once.



The two reasons were that Crans-

ton had a rifle and that Dan was un-

armed. Itlmight be extremely likely

that Cranston would choose the most

plausible and effectivegmeans of pre-

venting an interruption of his crime,

and by the same token, prevent word

of the crime ever reaching the author-

ities. The rifle contained five cart-

ridges, and only one‘was needed.



But the idea of backing out, unseen,

never even occurred to Dan. The fire

would have a tremendous headway be-

fore he could summon help. Although

it was near the lookout~station, every

condition pointed to a disastrous fire.

The brush was dry as tinder, not so

heavy as to choke the wind, but yet

tall enough to carry the flame into the

The stiff breeze up the

ridge would certainly carry the flame

for miles through the parched Divide

before help could come. In the mean-

time stock and lives and homes would'

be endangered, besides the irreparablei

loss of timber. There were many

things that Dan might do, but giving

up was not. one of them.



After all, he did the wisest thing. He

simply came out in plain sight and un-

concernediy walked down the trail to-

ward Cranston. At the same instant,

the latter struck his match.





As Dan was no longer

Cranston immediately heard his step.

He whirled, recognized Dan, and for

one long instant in which the world

seemed to have time in plenty to make

a complete revolution, he stood per-

fectly motionless. The match flared in

his dark fingers, his eyes—full of sin-





 





gular conjecturing—rested on Dan’s

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had ever been fraught with greater

peril. He understood perfectly what





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to shoot or whether to bluff it out. One

required no more moral courage than

the other. It . really didn’t make a

great deal of difference to Cranston.

He had been born in the hills, and

his spirit was the spirit of the wolf“

to kill when necessary, without mercy

or remorse. Besides, Dan represented,

in his mind, all that Cranston hated—

the law, gentleness, the great civilized

But in spite

of it, he decided that the killing was

not worth the cartridge. The other

course was too easy. He did not even

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or like some socialistic literature.

Brotherhood is at its height. Every

seven years money that has been loan-

ed to the poor, is to be remitted. And

money lenders are admonished not to

refuse a loan, when the-seventh year

is drawing near. The orcha1d1st is not

to gathel every last particle of his

010p. He is to leave some, so that

those who have none may come and

get a supply.





The Voice





. (Continued from preceding page).

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his mouth, «he touched the flaring

«lmatch to it. It was a wholly admirable

little piece of acting, and would have

deceived any one who had not seen

his previous preparations. The fact





that the pipe was empty mattered not i





one Way or another. Then he winked





 





and 21 Square

Our Weekly Sermon—By N. 4 MrCame





tions, the questions that faced the pear





the field for it. The Widow Will need

it; or the wild fowl will feed on it-

This touch of care fo1 the Wild life in





nature is the beginning of the sp'rit '

which came to its fullness in the words, .- ;

of Him who said, “Not a sparrow f’allx





eth to the ground without your fath-





' As for the unsocial crimes, adul- I





tery, theft, murder, they are denounced





with an eVerlasting curse. Hew happy

the IwOrl-d would have been in the





weary centuries that were to follow,

if these teachings had been observed!

The cost of brotheihood may seem‘





high at times, but the price of class





hate is infinitely higher. a .17;





Coming to Chlist, We find that He'





does not tone down the demands of the

prophets.

d'uces men to the level of the machine

He teaches, in the g1 eat parable of the

eleVenth hour, that men differ and

should be rewarded differently. A man

with a willing and eager Spirit 'de—

serves better treatment than a grasp-

ing niggard. To reward every man the

same, the quick, the slow, the ener-

getic, the lazy, the interested, the time-

killers, tends to demoralizati'on. It

may be more than” the square-deal“ fer

the incompetent, but it is” not square

towaid the‘efiicient Justice in society,

justice towaid the p001, justice toward





the man of wealth, justice betWeenI





classes, and between individuals, this

the Bible stands for, and enfdrces in

an almost irresistible way. The only

way, in fact, to resist it is to refdse to

read it.





N the “House. of the Seven Gables,”



them is a powerful picture. It is

the picture of Judge Pyncheon. The

Judge is known all over the state. He

comes of an old family, lives in the an-

cestral mansion, and his friends are

planning to elect him governor. ‘ One

day he goes into the city. '5 He has

many engagements. He is hiding} a

fast driving horse, he is to attend a.

dinner where the campaign for his

election to the governorship Will be

launched. He is also to visit a widow

and leave a dole.

to stop fdr a moment at his cousin’s,





whom he has wronged and persecuted





for many years. He enters the parlor

where his cousin lives and sits down.

The occupantm have gone. The h0u1

fo1 the political dinner comes and goes.

Still, he sits there. The eyes are wide

open. He does not move. His large

silver watch ticks on,_but he does not

consult it. Presently a fly lights on

his nose and crawls up to his eye, but

he does not brush it away. In’ short,

Judge Pyncheon is dead, and: ydu‘ do

not feel sorry. He has gone into the

presence of the Judge of the Supreme

Court, poorer than a savage of the

South Seas. He is peer because he

was poor toward men. it is easy to

clasp the hands and say it’was geod

enough for him. But only he has a

light to clap his hands Who daily prac»

tices the Bible square deal toward his

fellow men, and if he does, he Will feel

too much compassion to rejoice over

the downfall even of a man like Judge





If the farmer for'gets‘ a. Pyncheon.





Of the Pack





pipe. It was a curious little truce.

And then he leaned back against the

great, gray trunk of a fallen ti'e’eI 7'

“Well, Cranston,"

The men had met on previous occa-





sions, and always there had been the





same invisible war- between them

‘e‘Ho'w dd you do,

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2‘? flu , iith’eg’reeting of

' Wanton. [He pranounced all

'wbi‘dsifvi‘th an exaggerated precis-

ion, an unmiStakable mockery of Dan’s

In‘hisaccent he threw a

tone of sickly sweetness, and his infer-

ence wasall too plain. He was simply





 





‘ calling Failing a milksop and a white-





liver; just as plainly as if he had used

the words. The eyes of the two men

met. Cranston’s lips were slightly

curled in an umnistakable leer. Dan’s

were very'straight. And in one thing

at least, their eyes looked just the

same. The pupils of both pairs had

contracted to steel points, bright in the

dark gray of the irises. Cranston’s

looked somewhat red; and Dan's were

only hard and bright.



Dan felt himself straighten; and the

color mounted somewhat higher in his

brown cheeks. But he did not try to

avenge the insult—yet. Cranston was

still ’fifteen feet distant, and that was

too far. A man may swing a rifle with-

in fifteen feet. The fact that they

were in no way physical equals did

not even occur to him. ‘When the in

sult is great enough, such considera-

tions cannot possibly matter. Crans-

ton was hard as steel, one hundred and

seventy pounds in weight. Dan did not

touch one hundred and fifty, and a

deadly disease had not yet entirely’ re-

linquished its hold upon him.





Fighting Diseases With a





Tooth





State Board of Hea/t/z Urge: Reader: to Watc/z

Careful/y One Source of Many Ailments





“Our live contains a thousand springs,

And dies if one be gone,

Strange that a harp of a thousand

strings '

Should keep in tune so long.”

HE most important “springs” of

I the human body, perhaps, are

our teeth. Directly or indirectly,

infections of our teeth and gums cause

a great many of the fatal diseases

. We all know, or have met, elderly

people 'who boast of retaining all of

their teeth, in perfect condition, even

though ‘they used to crack hickbry

nuts with them when young. But very

seldom can the phrase, “as clean as

a hound’s tooth,” be applied to them.

And much of the sickness these "sound

toothed" " people may have suffered

could" be traced directly to the unclean

condition of their mouths. They have

luckily escaped dental decay, but the

indirect effects of their bacteria-laden

teeth can not be' reckoned.





.So we would say to the person who

wishes to keep his health, and to the

person wholdesires to improve his gen-

eral physical condition: Keep 'your

teeth clean; have a dentist examine

them periodically; and have all cavi-

ties treated immediately.



Five minutes daily is all the time re-

quired to keep infection out of the

teeth and gums if it has not progressed

beyond the primary, or surface, stage





" where it can be reached by contact





Twith a tooth brush and dental 'floss.

Surely this is not a great3deal of time

when it will prevent long hours in a

dentist’s chair, and” loss of time and

suffering ‘from affections such as rheu-

matism, appendicitis, and heart trou-





' ble caused by poor teeth.





Decay starts, and infection starts,

from the little particles of food that

Dodge between the teeth. Should you

examine your teeth in amirror after a

meal you‘will notice little bits of food

in white-‘fpatches near the edges of the

gums. Little red-like bacteria start to

grow ,in 'these particles. Just as 3 a

heavy- ' Summer » ~ shower stimulates the





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, «in very ‘ ell, CranSton,{’\-'Dan 8.11-

swered in the same tone. “Wouldn’t

you ‘like another match? I belieVe

your pipe has gone out."



Very little can be said for the wis-

dom of this remark. -It was simply

human—that age-old creed to answer

blow for blow and insult for insult.

Of course the inference was obvious—

that Dan was accusing him, by innuen-

do, of his late attempt at arson. Crans-

ton glanced up quickly, and it might

be that his fingers itched and tingled

about the barrel of his rifle. He knew

'what Dan meant. He understood per-

fectly that Dan had guessed his pur-

pose on the mountain side. And the

curl at his lips ”became more pro-

nounced.



“What a smart little boy ,” he scorn-

ed. “Going to be a Sherlock Holmes

when he grows up.” Then he half

turned and the light. in his eyes blazed

up. He was not leering now. The-

mountain menare too,intense to play

at insult very long. Their inherent

savagery comes to the surface, and

they want the warmth of blood upon

their fingers. The voice beCame hut-

tural. “Maybe you’re a spy?" he ask-

ed. “Maybe you’re one of those city

rats—to come up and watch us, and

then run and tell the forest service.

There’s two things, Failing, that I want

you to know."



(Continued next week).





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soil for the rapid growth of these bac-

teria.



If the food particles are not removed

with a toothpick, and the teeth cleaned

with a brush and dental floss,"the bac-

teria thrive, an acid forms on the

teeth. and decay begins. The work of

the bacteria can be compared to that

of the weathering of old and moss-eat-

en tombstones in an old burial ground,

weathering which may finally obliter-

ate the letters and figures on the head-

stones. It is the same process by

which floating limestones slowly- be-

come part of the soil in which they are

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Given time, ,the bacteria work down

to the roots of the tooth where they

cause decay that will extend up into

the softer parts of the tooth itself. Ab-l

scesses often develop at the roots of

teeth without decay giving immediate

warning. In these cases, whenever

pressure is exerted upon the tooth, or

teeth, such as in eating, the tooth and

abscess acts as a syringe, pumping

constant streams of pus and bacteria

into the blOod and throughout the body.

It is in this manner that the teeth and

gums are the direct, or indirect, source

for many of man’s fatal infections.





“A clean tooth never decays." We

have long had this statement thrown

at us from magazine‘ advertisements

extolling some particular brand of

tooth paste' or powder, but it is well to

remember that no dental preparation

will keep teeth clean and free from de-

cay unless they are brushed properly.



We are advised to brush the teeth

up and down, .and never' cross-wise.

The reason for this is not only because

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wise method often wears little hollows.

at~the base of the teeth, exposing the‘

sensitive and softer parts, and so nec-

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and length of the brush proper pro-,

duce no friction, and friction is neces-l

sary to clean the teeth. A small brush,‘

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T was a heathen Chinee who said



he thought the Americans were



crazy.



“They wait till they’re sick and then

pay a doctor to make them well,” he

complained. “Now, we pay doctors to





keep us well, and if we get sick we

don’t pay him. The sicker you Amer-

icans get the more you pay the doctor.

What’s to hinder him keeping you sick

so his. pay will go on?”



The logic of the Chinaman’s philoso-

is beginning to penetrate the





phy





American mind. “Isn’t it better,” mod-

ern doctors and nurses and health

boards ask. “to keep folks well, than

to let them get sick and then pay out

big sums for hospitals and medicine

and nurses and doctors to put them on

their feet? It doesn’t cost near as

much money~ to keep well as it does to

get well. And think of the suffering

you save'”



It is with that idea in mind that

children's preventoriums are being es-

tablished in various parts of the coun-

try. A preventorium, be it known, is

ahome to which children who are run

down. ill—nourished, under weight and

anaemic may be‘sent to be built up

into normal, healthy youngsters. As

it’s name signifies, it is a place where

ireaiment is given to prevent more

serious conditions, usually tuberculosis.



A preventorium for West Michigan

has just been opened near Grand Rap—

ids, in an old farm home near enough

to the limits so that parents living in

the city and not owning “flivvers”will

have no trouble in walking to the pre-

ventorium from the end of the our

line. ' ‘



The preventorium, which accommo-

dates eleven boys and eleven girls,

was opened in September, and it has

been filled to capacity ever since.



Perhaps one reason it is always full





a good time there they fight efforts to

send them home. Anyway, there is

loud lamentation when a 'boy or girl is

told he is peifectly well enough to go

back home and get into the harness

once more.



They have to work out at the pre-

ventorium, so it can’t be hatred of

washing dishes and cleaning walks

that makes them want to stay. There

is a half-day session of school for ev-





 





, ery child who is able to go, all day for





some after they have been there a

month or six Wrecks. They attend the

country school near the home, run to

the preventorium at recess for a glass





 





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is because the youngsters have such .





Then a nourishing meal at twelve

o’clock, and bed for ‘two hours, from

one until three o’clock. At three they

get up, play outside, until dark, and

then. there are stories and games,

weaving mats and basketry, mending

for the girls, supper, and bed on the

sleeping porches at seven for the

younger children, and eight o ’clock for

the older ones.



In between there we household

tasks. The boys have to take care of

their own beds, porch and dressing-





Supper Time in the Preventorium.





room, scour wash bowls and bath tubs

sweep, dust and even help with dishes.

The girls do similar work, and in ad-

dition set the table. There is only

one hired helper in the kitchen, a

nurse in charge, and a janitorgso you

can see that every child must do some

little task in order to keep the wheels

moving.





But with it all there is plenty of

fresh air, stated and regular hours of

rest, regular meals, and loads of milk.





 





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his clean bed that first night in the

home that' never in all his life had he

slept in woolen blankets.

entered the preventorium his under

clothes had not been of! in six weeks.

Now he is the dandy of the place, he

would spend his time in the bath tub

if he weren’t chased out, his clothes

are always in perfect condition, and

he never has to be sent from the table

to washhis hands.



One of the girls at eleven years of

age had never“ been to school. She

didn’t. know the alphabet, even, not be—

cause she was not bright but because

she had always been too delicate to

do anything, even to play.‘ There

wasn’t anything wrong with her organ-

All she needed was sensible

treatment, the right food at the right

time, outdoor play, and rest. She en-

tered the preventdrium in September

and two weeks later started to school

for a half day. By the last of Novem-

ber she was doing third grade work,

and will enter the fourth grade in Feb-

ruary. In the same time she. gained

sixteen pounds in weight, and three

hundred per cent in spirits. She didn’t

know how to play with the other chil-

dren when she came out, but now she’s

the leader. _



Prevention. Isn’t it better than cure?

If the folks in your section begin to

talk preventerium, you be a booster.

It pays.





 





How MUCH DO YOU EAT?





 





EXT in importance to the selec-



tion of proper foods comes the



quantity necessary to keep us in

perfect health.



Quantity requirements are based on



so many things that this is a more dif—



ficult p1‘oblem-~.than quality. Occupa-





 





Amid Beautiful Surroundings, thiefHome is Ideal fbr the Undernourlehe'd





Child.





And how those starved. looking young-

sters respond to the treatment!



A gain of five pounds the first week

is the rule. One youngster broke the

record by gaining ten pounds ,in the

first eight days. A lad who was found

sleepingunder a stairway, a mass of

skin and bones, and clothed in rags

so filthy that they had to be cut off

and burned, gained fifteen pOunds in

six Weeks. For months all he had had

to eat was what he could buy 'with the

few pennies he earned selling papers.





 





tion; whether active muscular work or.

, sedentary, as





oflice work, sewing,

studying, etc., age and 'sex all enter

into the problem of deciding how much

we shall eat. It goes without saying

that a man engaged in heavy outdoor

work would need

clerk or student that men need more

food than women, and that adults need

more than children, while the youth





needs more muscle-building flood than .' , ,

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less (an most of us eat? and have bet-

ter health They are agreed in saying

that men doing work’ like farming

need ahont 3, 500 {calories per day,

While those doing heavier work, as

for‘insta‘nce, lumbering, need 4,000 cal-

ories; Ltwill be seen from the accom-

partying-3 table that, with the possible

exception of breakfast, the amounts of

foods ' here noted are about half of

what the average healthy man devours





when he is in good trim and working





hard. Whether he would be benefited

by cutting his dinner and supper in

half is an open question and an inter-

esting one.



I would like very much to know just

how a healthy farmer would feel after

six months’ living with a dinner con—

sisting of one cup of stew, two small

potatoes, 3. side dish of some other

vegetable, two slices of b1ead and but-

ter, and one small piece of pie or a

piece of cake or two cookies.



An active woman needs about one-

fifth less feed, than a man engaged in

heavy muscular work. A boy sixteen

years of age needs about the same

quantity of food .as a woman, while a.

girl of sixteen needs about three-

fourths asmuch, and a child of ten

needs about half as much food as a

man.



As these are the findings of men and

women who have spent years in re-

search, experimenting on thousands of

people and watching results, it would

seem that a great many of us need to

reform. Every mother of growing boys

can testify that, it' the boy’s appetite

is taken as a gnage, he requires about

twice the amount of food a man work-

ing at top speed will take.



Most men and women doing heavy

muscular work, eat more than , the

amounts prescribed as reasonable. Few

of us go away from the table with

one serving of meat or vegetables. And

how many farm cooks content, them-

selves with serving pie or cake or

cookies alone?



Perhaps experimenting would show

many families the cause for the indi‘

gestion and its attendant ills which

cause so many of us to take a day off

every little while.



‘ Necessary Calories for a Working

Man.



A day’s food which would furnish

the necessary calories for a working

man would be given by the following

meals:





Breakfast.



Calories.



Cereal (11/: cups with 5A; cup of



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Sausage or ham or bacon ........ 200



Toast or bread (two slices) or two

muflins ....................... . 100

Butter (two tablespoonsful). .. 200

Sugar (two tablespoonsful) ...... 100



Dinner.

Meat (as meat pie, stew, steak





roast beef or pork or mutton). 400





Potato (mashed 1% cups) ....... 300

Vegetable (moderate serving) . .. 100

Broad {two thick slices) ........ 100

Butter (two tablesptmnsful) ..... 200.

Pudding (rice tapioca or bread

paladins or out or date pud-

ding) ....





Stew. or macaroni and cheese 'or



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Fruitufrdtpiae ..... .......... 200

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then rinsing thoroughly in clear water

containing a little {ammonia



Ink stains can usually be, removed

soaking in

either sweet or sour milk. However,

unless the colors are fast, they will

probably fade to some extent. As the

milk becomes discolored, it should be

poured off and replaced with more. It

may take a day or two of soaking to

remove ”all the stain.





HINTS FOR THE HOME DYER.





 





If you are planning to renew mate-

rials by dyeing, be sure to choose a

color darker than that of the material

to be dyed. Figured and striped goods

are very hard to dye, and amateurs

ought not to attempt them. Try the

plain colors first.



Be sure to wash the goods before

putting it into the dye. Grease and

dirt spots will show unless this is done.

Wool dye must be used for wool goods,

and cotton dye for cotton fabrics. If

you attempt to dye mixed goods, use

dyes for cotton, and leave the mate—

rial in the dye bath long enough for

the wool or silk to take on the desired-

shade. Where wool material is stitch-

ed with cotton. cotton dye should‘be

used unless it is possible to remove the

stitching, in which case, wool dye can

be used.



Hems and folds should be ripped op-

en and interlinings removed. The ma-

terials must be immersed in the dye

bath and stirred and turned frequently.

The goods should then be rinsed in

cold water until it no longer colors the

water. Hanging up a dyed garment

will sometimes cause the material to

shrink. It is better to shake it until

nearly dry. To be sure of the desired

shade, start with a weak dye, and then

dip the article several times. Boiling

or allowing a fabric to cool in the dye

deepens the color. Delicate fabrics

should be squeezed dry.~—Z. I. DAVIS.





FIGHTING DISEASES WITH A

TOOTH BRUSH.





 





(Continued from page 77).

With bristles not over one-quarter of

an inch in length, will be found most

satisfactory and efficient, providing the

user always remembers to brush with

the “grain” of the teeth rather than

across the “grain.”



, The wisdom teeth are the most abus-

ed teeth a. person possesses. The opin-

ion is current among some people that

they should be extracted if they are

not to cause trouble, yet structurally

the wisdom teeth are the same as the

rest of the'molars. It is only because

they are never given care that they

have gained a bad name. Special care

should be taken when brushing the

teeth to see that the wisdom teeth get

as thorough a cleaning as do the in-

cisors.



Then, too, the gums need brushing

just as much as the teeth that grow

from them. Brushing of the, gums is

necessary to ' remove the bacterial

growth and dead epithelial scale which

furnishes breeding soil for bacteria.

Gums that are tender and sore can be

made healthy and firm by a vigorous





400 scrubbing with a tooth brush twice a





day. Upon starting to brush the gums

they may bleed and become very sen-

sitive, but if the brushing is kept up

for a week or ten days the soreness





M'wlll‘ pass away and the gums become





pink and healthy.



While careful cleaning of the teeth

with. a tooth brimh nemoves the great-

or portion o! foreign substance and





hetaigit cannot be expected to‘





doom chairmen. Dental floss, care;

all! o'er-Ind m. between and around

each Musical tooth is the only thing

that winds: the. trick without a. den-

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- HE Michigan junior live stock

judging team started from Char-

lotte on, November 25. It con-



sisted of Carl Johnson, of Ironwood;

Rex Stowe, of Cheboygan, and myself.

We had been doing some practice judg-

ing at the M. A. C. for two days before

starting forChicago. When we reach-

ed Chicago we were met by Mr. An-

derson, the assistant state club leader,

and taken to therY. M. *C. A. Hotel,





. which we made our headquarters dur-





ing our stay in Chicago. ,



We went out to the live stock pavil-

ion at 7:30 the next morning to take

part in the live stock judging contest.

One team was allowed from each state,

to consist of club members, or students

of agricultural schools, between the

ages of twelve and eighteen years. We

were quite discouraged, as nearly all

of the other contestants were high

school students and appeared to ,be

older than ourselves.





We judged six classes of-animals.

two classes of Percheron geldings,

Hereford heifers, Shorthorn steers,

Poland-China sows and Duroc barrows.



The contest was finished at two

o’clock and we returned to our hotel.

While there registering at the Armour

Junior Club headquarters, we heard

the results 'of the contest. Georgia

won first, Michigan second, and \Iowa

third. You can imagine that we were

surprised, for we had little hope of be-

ing placed so high.



On Sunday we went to church at the

Central Church of Chicago, on Michi-

gan avenue, where we heard Dr. Gun-

saulus deliver a sermon. Monday was

the first day of the club tour'Which

the Armour Company had arranged for

club members who had won trips to

Chicago, and who came from all parts

ior the United States. All the club mem-

‘bers, about four hundred and fifty, as-

'sembled at headquarters in the morn-

ing. We were taken to the stock show

.from there in special cars. When we

ireached there we were met 'by the

{Armour Girls’ Band. Led'by them we

paraded into the liVe stock ‘ show

’ grounds, where “movies" Were taken

‘of us. We were then dismissed, and

looked over some of the animals exhib-





 





 





prised to findwhat a large number 'of





. animals were entered in a. single class,





some classes having as many, as forty

animals. ' ' . 7

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ited there and watched the judging of.

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A Trip to the‘International





By Walter'E. Ball - ‘





was held at headquarters. ‘ Michigan

was honored there by having Mr. Tur-

ner, our state club leader, lead all the

states in singing club songs together.

We were addressed there by J. R.

Howard, president of the American

Farm Bureau Federation; Genrge F.

Farrell, club leader; for'the north and

west, and by O. H. Benson, president

of the Eastern States’ League. ,I



The next day was spent in the Ar-

mour plant. We watched the killing

of hogs, sheep and cattle and saw

them from therrtime they were killed

until they were put in the cold storage.

plant. We found that every part 'of

the animal was saved, from the blood

to the toenails.



We were given a, demonstration 0n

carcass cutting, which showed us the

factors that influenced. the value of

meat. The talk on government meat

inspection was interesting, as we were

told the methods followed by the in-

spectors to "save all meat that was

healthy and discard that which would

be injurious to people. V ‘ I



After having dinner in the Armour

restaurant we were taken to the Ar-

mour by-products plants, where we saw

the manufacture of soap and waShing‘

powder. Following our supper in the

Armour restaurant we were entertain-

ed in the ArmOur gymnasium by Al‘-

mour’s Orchestra, Dramatic Club and

Glee Club.



Wednesday was Loop Day, the first

event on the program being a visit, to

the Art Institute. There guides show-

ed us the paintings, Statues and relics

of interest. We then visited Marshall

Field’s store, supposed to be the larg-

est in Chicago. There we were per-

mitted to see'$7,000,000 worth of fur

garments and trophies of big game

These furs were stored by.

Marshall Field in his cold storage by

private individuals. We .. were xenter'

tained for dinner in Marshall Field’s-

restaurant.‘ After dinner we visited

the Continental and [Commercial Na--

tional Bank, where we met Mr. George

Reynolds,".the president of the bank.

He gave us .a short talk on the'»value

of goOd citizenship.".From:here we took

a. special train for Lincoln Park, where

we» visited the Zoo. There is a fine





collection of animals "there, both Amer-





ican and foreign. We saw them feed

the animals, which was ‘very inter-

esting. . ' - .

In the evening we were entertained

in the Riveria Theater, where We saw





   





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taken or club activities during the

The last day of the tour was





farm machinery is made. We had a

chance to. See its development from the

molds and molt-en iron to the finished

We visited the twine factory

next, where the bales of hemp from

the south are made into binder twine

{for our harvest fields. At noon we

were entertained for dinner in the Mc-

Cormick restaurant.



After noon we took special cars to

the Corn Products Company. This is

a large factory; It has seven dynamos,

the largest costing $250,000. The coal

for the furnaces that heat the boilers

isn’t handled by hand. It is carried by

a large steel crane from the coal cars

to a huge hopper over the boiler plant.

Chutes from this hopper takes the coal

directly into the furnaces.

Seventy‘five thousand bushels of

corn is ground per day. This is made

into corn starch, elasticstarch, corn

sugar, lard substitute and syrup. We

returned to headquarters from there,

where we took a last farewell to our

friends, who were going ,home.



The six-horse teams attracted our

attention greatly, especially those of

Swift & 00. They Were large, mas-

siVe, well built, powerful, dappled

greys. Other animals attracting our

attention were the champion carlot of

Angus steers, the grand champion An-

gus steers, and the grand champion

,Shorthorn bull, Pellipar Iris, which had

been the grand championa’t the Eng-

lish Royal. We started for Charlotte

at 5:00 o’clock, after a very interesting

and instructive week in Chicago.





BOYS MOU-RN THE DEATH OF

“COOKIE” JONES.





OOKIE JONES. is dead!” This

~startling and sad information came

to the writer'a few days ago from one

of the “State Fair School Boys” from

Jackson county. Since that time a

score of the boys who camped on the

fair grounds last September have writ-

ten in stating they had written one or

more letters to Cookie Jones and re-

ceived no reply.

At the time of the older boys’ con

ference at Grand Rapids, Mr. Jones





 





“Cookie" Jones.





was taken sick very suddenly and re-

moved to the hospital. He sank rap-

idly. and died. of acute tonsilitis. He

was about fifty years of age, never

married, and never had a home of his

own since he left his parents’ home in

Wales. His parents still survive. Mr.

Jones was a metal tester. During his





' spare hours since the war he had de-





voted his whole time to the Y. M. C.

A., church and community service

work. Scores and Scores of boys will

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Why Wheat Prices Dropped





, INGS of the Federal Trade Com-



mission, which was directed by the

President to investigate the causes of the

decline in wheat prices, made public at Wash,

ington, December 20, were as follows:





1. The outlook for an increased world supply.





Concentrated buying by foreign govern'

ments last spring and slack purchases





later.





3.“Unprecedented“ importations from Cane

ada following an “unprecedented yield

and a. discount in rate of exchange.”





4. The rec0rd breaking yield of com and

' the large yield of cats. '





flour.





5. The slackening in domestic demand for





6. The general tendency toward commodity





. ' declines.





‘ 7. The change in credit conditions “with

resulting disposition of distributors to

refrain from accumulating 'usual stocks. ’





The report says further: “The limited evidence

available does not establish manipulation of wheat

prices by large operators in futures nor that the recent

low average or downward trend of wheat prices has

been due to speculative manipulation.“





The study of marketing of grains is one of absorbing

interest now being taught in many colleges. Literature

on this subject will be sent FREE to growers, grain

handlers and others legitimately interested. Simply send

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and it will be sent immediately.





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W0 movements directly affecting



the dairy industry in Wisconsin



are noticeable at this time. They

are entirely distinct in character, but

they have a common purpose, that of.

improving dairy conditions in the state.

The first and most important of these

is the stupendous effort being made

by the State Department of Agricul-

ture to eradicate tuberculosis from the

dairy herds of the state. The second

is the campaign being carried on to

make general throughout the state the





[cooperative marketing o'f.-dairy prod-





ucts. The latte1 is being foste1ed and

encouraged by the State Division of

Markets



The two outstanding methods of tu-

berculosis eradication in use here both

originated in Wisconsin, and, it may

be said without boastfulness, they are

making more conspicuous progress in

this state than in any other'among the

thirty odd states which have adopted

them. The first method is known as

the “clear area”

township or a county, or any other se-





:= »lected unit is freed of all traces of the





disease and by close attention kept

free. Gradually by this; means of re,-

peat-ed testing and the elimination of

reactors, there ceases to be any re-

actors and the bringing of untested

cattle into the area is forbidden. This





 





is a slow method of work, but it is a

piaciicable and a sure one as has been

proven. Sometimes the wo1k has been

held up because of lack of funds by





_ the Department of Agriculture, but it





has steadily made headway until now





. Professor No1goid, state commissioner





of agr‘icultuie is able to repoxt four

clear areas in the state. These aie,

first, the western and larger portion of

Waukesha county in the southern por~

tion of we state. This is the most pro-

ductive dairy section, and has the larg-





" est cow population of any meat of the





Same size in the state. The second is





. Washington Island ,in Green Bay, a





detached portion of Door county, which

is wholly free f1 om reactors. This is-

land while not the first field of work,

was the first absolutely clear area, its





. situation away f1 om the mainland lend-





ing itself readily to the cleaning-up

process. At the present time it Would





or bull there, as it would on the Island

of Jersey. >



Barron county in the no1thwestern

portion of the state has sixty-nine thou-

sand cows and the last test by the de-

partment inspectors showed only forty-

two onejhundredths of one per cent, of

reactors. These latter were at once





' ”remoired and now Barron county is the





largest single area in the United States





.- that is absolutely flee from any trace

’ «of the disease. Lincoln.- county,





 





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be as difficult to land ’an untested cow,





Wisconsm Dairy 0nd1tions

' By William J, AWN,” ,





and Work is progressing in other north- . ~ -’ '





ern counties.





HE second method being used to



stamp out bovine tuberculosis is

the accredited herd plan. In this work

the State Department of Agriculture

coOperates with the United States De-

partment of Agriculture. There are

now in Wisconsin, outside of the clear





areas already described, four hundred





and thirty-two (accredited. herds—that

is.herds in which repeated testsvhave

eliminated all reactors. Each month

this numbe1 is increased as the work

of teSting and eliminating goes stead-

ily on. The accredited herd plan has





beena great b00n‘to those who buy _1





and sell dairy stock. An animal from





an aceredited herd, ca1rying the joint .





ce1tificate of the state and federal de-

partments of agiiculture, is given the

1ight of way into other states or coun»

tries. In Wisconsin the business of

buyingand shipping dairy cattle has

developed to bigproportions. Hundreds

of carl‘oads of grades and registered

cows are yearly shipped out or Wis-

consin to other states and to Canada

and South American states. By'these





two methods described the State .De-'





partinent of Agriculture expects to be

able within five yeais to announce all

the nmthein timbe1land counties of

the state as clear areas.

Beside these two methods described,





 





Better Dairying will Follow some Concerted Plan of Cleaning Up and WC!-

‘ mg Up Farm Herds. _, p





which may be called the wholesale ,

means of ridding the state of the do,





stiuctive disease, others less direct





and on a smaller scale are being ca1- _'

iied on in connection With creatuery .





and cheese facto1y pations The leg-





islatuie has made p1 ovision for testing: " ’

flee on 1equest, the cattle owned bYr ‘

any group of factory or Creamery or ‘





condensary pat1ons, When the aggre-_

gate is three hundred cows or mere;

or for paying half the expense if the





group herds number less than three _





hundred.





sun another method of fighting the , - f

disease is provided by a. law enacted". Q





in 1917, which requires that any cream-





ery or cheese factory Which“ does not _ ,_

pasteurize the milk received by it, Or. -





if the milk is not from accredited h‘erds

or a clear area, must pasteurize its by—

products before they are distributed.





It was found that tuberculosis among '





hogs as well ,as among calves which





used the whey or buttermilk from fac-vl .





ptories was increasing at an! alarming

rate.

culture collected data showing that in





1917 the loss in hogs from’tubereulosis .1





amounted to $1, 800, 000. As. nearly as

could be judged the prevalence of tu-





berculosis among the hogs was due in. *

part to the“; feeding of Whey and but-7‘”

tenniik, and in part to allowing h0g5;





to folloW infected cattle





 





The State Department of Agri—,. .‘





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legislature four "years

ed .fact that fifty per cent of tubercu-

losis among the children of this coun-

try could be traced to the use of milk





, from infected cows, made heroic meas-





ures imperative, even if no reference

Were made to the immense property

loss sustained annually by dairymen

and stock raisers. The next four years





:7 will witness in Wisconsin the most ex-





tensive campaign against animal dis-

easesever undertaken by any state.





E second movement to improve



dairy conditions refelred to, that

of establiShing upon a broad and sub‘

stantial foundation cooperative mar-

keting, has gained much headway.

Thele is already in existence, and has

been since 1914, a stiong marketing

Olganization among cheese manufac-

tu1e1s—the Wis'consin Cheese Ploduc-

ers’ Federation. This is made up whol-V

ly of manufacturers of American

cheese, but a: meeting is to be held

within a month to form a similar or-

ganization tomhandle the foreign brand

cheese, of which a great deal is made

in Wisconsin There is now proposed

by the federation another advanced

step in cooperation, namely, the organ.

ization of the erisconsin Dairymen’s

Storage Company. The plan has the

endorsement of the State Division of

Markets, the Economics Department

of the State University, and the Farm

Bureau Federation. This plan contem-

plates getting'a majority of all the

cheese producers of the state into the

federation, and the organization of a

$250,000 corporation to take over two

waaehouses and thus enable the feder-

ation to secure the advantages in mal-

lteting its products which storage facil-

ities will give it. The plan has such

excellent endorsement that there seems

no doubt about it being put through.

The directors of the Cheese Producers’

Federation are getting out an address

to all cheese producers pointing out

the immense advantages which will‘ac-

crue from having storage facilities.

“Dairymen,” says this address, “must





directly or indirectly pay for cheese





storage houses, and their upkeep and

they might as well own and operate

them." In the past seven years the

cheese men, assert the chief profit in

dairy products has not been in pro

duction, but in marketing the products.

The storage company will be organ-

ized with only about two thousand dol-

lars of common stock which Will have

all tire voting power. The balance of

the $250,000 will be preferred stock

carrying a guaranteed return of six

per cent. Once the new company is

launched and has taken over the two

storage houses it will put up new store-

houses as needed.





The recent drop in, the prices of milk

and milk products has caused much

disquietude among farmers. It is com-

monly said that prices at the present

range, without going lower as they

seem likely to do, involve an actual

loss to v-dairymen. This situation is

stimulating interest in the Cooperative

schemes and it is "not improbable that

ghese may go in some directions to un-

leasonable lengths. Director No1dman,

of the State Division of Markets, feels

that the farmers are too slow in taking

11p cooperative marketing of their prod-_

ucts. In a recent letter Mr. Nordman

says if the farmers are really sincere

in their desire to get higher prices for

their products they must show more

willingness than they have yet done in

aiding the cooperative movement. .





A big wolf hunt was staged in Ed-

ward county, Illinois, under the man-





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Change of Copy or Cancellations must reach us

Ten Days before date of publication





Wildwood Farms

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Effies Lass 238203 sold on May 6th for

$7100. She was sired by Black Mon-

arch 3rd. We are offering for sale Ed-

itor of Wildwood 295059 a full brother

in blood lines to Effies Lass also four

more choice bulls which are old enough

fonservice and sired also by the charm-

pion show and breeding bull Black

Monarch 3rd.





Our herd is under State and Federal

Supervision.





wrwwdon FARMS

_ ORION, MICHIGAN

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Woodcote Stock Farm, Ionia, Mich.





 





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his (1.323310: ls contributed y.Geo Hathaway 1!: 8011.

A few tangles and an aged bull to spare

at Wyrivnte Isle.





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' bulls and heifers from 6 to



Reg‘ Aberdeen Angus 18 mos. old of thevery best

of breeding, also Berkshire Swine, boars ready for

service :1 pigs both see: singles. pairs or tries.

will acceptR Liberty Bou

USSELL BROTHERS, Merrill, Mich.





EGISTERED Aberdeen-Angus. Ten heifers. six

b Is tram eight to fourteen months Best of

breeding, the growthy kind that make good. Reason

able. Inquire F. J. WILBER. Clio. Mich





Village Farms Guernseys

for sale High grade milking cows, heifers and

heifer calv.es A so registered bulls from 1 month to

serviceable age whose dams are on test and making



records. Write or come and see the herd. Rex

Griffin Herdsman, 0. J. Winter, Pmp Sebewaing.Mioh





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coming serviceable ace, carrying 5 MayR



Sire won five lat prize and one grand championbhi



Dam' s A R. record 10170 lb. milk 511). 2 lbs. fat. Shoufd

head a high class herd. Priced right.



PAUL LOVE, St. Austell Farms, Jackson. Mich.





 





mos old bull calf.



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light service. extra well grown. Rightin every way

$100. Heifer Olaulf 8 1110. old no relation.



J .AWILLI AMS, No. Adams, Mich.





 





uernwys. Federal Impacted. Only 1 serviceable

ago bull left. Born Nov 1919. Dam' a and alto 'odm

A. R. records over400 lbs. b. f. Class G. Traces?! times

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m'ade 15,109 10‘ milkT 778 so fat. ' ”the” me a dam

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“Nine years ago Ipurchased

my first purebred Holsteins,

three young heifers and a bull.

One 0 those heifers cost $175

and now has five daughters,

four granddaughters and foux

gr reat granddaughters. For



or the whole family a conser-

vative estimate of their value



1s$15, GOO—not so bad for a

8175 investment nine years

ago.”



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We have what you want in BULL CALVES, the lag...

fine growth, type, guaranteed fight in every way

They are from high producing A. B. O. ancestors:

Dam's records up to 30 lbs. Write for pedigrees and

quotations, stating about age desired.





TRAVERSE CITY STATE HOSPITAL

Traverse City, Mich.





Holsteins of Quality





for sale. Heifers from 8 to ‘34 month old. All is-

tered and sold subfict to tuberculint reg

HARD Y. tRochester. Mich





Here Is A Good One. ,





Ayearllng son of Maplecrest De Kol Hemrveld.

The sire havin three sisters, each with records of

overlain» of butter in a yam-.1“, of them

former world chem Ions. Golf’s dam bolster to three

cachK with records 0 over 1200 pounds Ponti

ale Korndyke. This combination ofibreed



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Are you using a first class herd sire?

You can’t afford to use a poor one.





We have good ones of all ages" list-

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Let us know your needs.

The Michigan Ho'lsiein-Fiiesian

Association





H. ll. llillllflll. Jr., Field Seculary,

Old Siaie Block, Lansing, Michigan





Two Grandsons of

King Of The Pontiacs





Ready for Service

From 31.18 and 28.39 lb. dams





Sirez—King of the Pontiacs Segis No. 169i24 whole

by King of the Pontiacs and mm Hillsdaie Segis

(a 331i). daughter of King Segis) “Nut Oed.”





Dams;—Topsy Olothilde Fobes No. 172806 made 31.18

lbs. butter and 623.8 lb. milk in 7 days.

Sunny Brook Nina. Segis No. 43727 at iyears groduced

28.39 lbs. butter and 587.61bs. milk in 7 aye and

105.94 lbs. butter and 2319.6 lbs. milk in 30 days.





These bulls are nicely marked and Good Individuals.



Herd under federal supervision. Come and see them.



For pedigree and information write Mr. Fred Alt, Mgr.

James B. Jones Farms

Romeo, Mich. '





“0' l .n Friesian heifer and bull calves, purebred

3 0i registered and high-grade. Price $20 up.

Splendid individuals and breeding. Write us your re-

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NOTICE





The Winwood Herd





on Nov. 1st will move their Herd of

Pure Blood Holsteins to their new

home, 1% miles south of Rochester,Mich.

and for the next 30 days we will sell

what bull calves we have cheap as we

will be unable to get our buildings com-

plete before winter. So 1Vget busy if ou

want a son of Flint aplecrest 0y

at your own price.





JOHN H. WlNN, (1....)





Michigan





 





 





Roscommon,





“Ton Notch” Hnlsieins





Buy a. "milk" Bull of Quality from the Breeders

01‘ the world's on! cow to produce 800 lbs. milk in 7

days. having an 800 b. daughter.



Our advertised bulls are selling fast.



Here are two good ones:





No. 1.‘ King Vale Colantha De Kol, No. 307701!

Born (lot. 11. 1919.



A “TOP NO'l‘OH“ individual. backed by fifteen

dams who average 30.73 lbs. butter in 7 days.



Price $175.00 f. o. b. Howell

No.2. Cornucopia Wayne Segis King. No.318409



Born Dec. 6. 1919,



His 4 nearest dams average 2.5 39 lbs butter in 7 days.

Dams. a 2?. lb. cow with a daughter who produced 38.-

7441b... milk and 1543 lbs. butter in two consecutive

years. Price $12.50) f. o. b. Howell.



No. 1 Bull about one qnnarter white.





No. 2 Bull about half and half.

Howell, Mich.





McPherson Farms Co.





Our herds under. U. S. Supervision.





 





 





2 H " calves sire a 27 lb. son of Maple Crest Korn.

0i er dyke Heng. Their dams_ have 19“). 2 yr

old sister and a 27 lb. sire. Terms $7.) down $50 a year'

M. L. McLAULIN, Redford. Mich:





For Sale liolstein-Friesians





A bull calf ready for service. Combines Show

type and production. ‘



Ilerdsire, Model King Segis Glista. whose grand.

dam is Glista Ernestine. the only cow of the breed

that has six times made better than 30 lbs. butter.





Grand River Stock Farms

Corey J. Spencer, Owner

315 N. East Ave. , Jackson, Mich.





illuny Stock Farm





Ofiers the best selection of young bulls from 8 to

1‘2. months we ever raised; out of damsup to 29.76

for aged cows and over 26 lbs. for 2 r. olds.

Yearly records up to 24000 lbs. milk and 000 lbs.

butter. Sired by our Senior Herd Sire. Maple-

crest Application Pontiac. Whose dam made 35

lbs. butter in 7 days and 1344 lbs. butter and

23421 lbs. milk in a. year. or by Dutchland Kon.

igen Sir Rag Apple, our Junior Herd sire. whose

dam is a 30 lb. 10 yr. old maternal sister of Dutchland

Colantha Denver who m e 36 lbs. in 7 days and 1315

lbs. butter and 25431 lbs. milk in 1 year. Several carry

the blood of both these sires.



They are extra well grown straight and right. One

of. these at the head of your herd is bound to increase

production.



Send for pedigrees and prices





ll. Bruce McPherson, Howell. Mich.





Re Holstein-Friesian cows and heifers. Pricedto

9 soil. Good individuals. Choice breeding. Some

freshen soon. 13. B. Reavey. Akron. Mich.





 





 





 





. . ’ .

Federal . Old enon h

Accredited Herd Bu“ For sale for servings.

Dams records. 7 da. milk 7.80. butter 20.86. 806 do.

milk 16,115.11 butter “8. She as 2 A. R. O._daughtI.:rs.

His sire a 24 lb. grandson of Oolantha Johanna .





   

 

 





Vernon Clough. ’ arms.





. a . eheifer calves 7 mos. old not related to boil.

“4140:3500. , P M‘ .





.born Dec. 191a rr'o Fed ‘ I Iredi * .



Four of his? nearest dogs have‘fi%.a8?mcofids£:ode



bu. Dams record .221bs:atfi‘_montln.h rdam



{emigrateeasements“ if...“ an

u an ,‘a. '



herd. . W. B; READER, 'Eowle‘l , Mich.





Registered Here‘-

ford Bull Bargains





In ergo:- to reach every farmer and breeder want'

good oil: I Will 011‘s: or a limited time a few g

ones atfilOQ to $125. ea 12 to 18 mos.'(act quick).

Farm six unles'So. of coin, Cit: Tel. 12274



Jay Harwood 8: Son,





' . , Ionia, Mich;

‘H E R E F O R D S

Cows with calves at side, open or bred





heifers of pOpular breeding for sale. Also

bulls not related. ’ '





Allen Bros. Paw Paw,Mich.‘

Address Until June m. 1921. ‘

907 Osborne St., ‘ Kalamazoo, Mich.





Herefords For Sale F133‘ifé‘é,“§3£”ii.“§§§d§l°°s§é

reduction on all sires. choice females for sale. Write

me your needs. Earl C. McCarty, Baddxe, Mich.





   





 





 





 





 





The “Marvel Cowl" nf'Vall Breeds

Vive La France 319616 has won this

distinction as the result of her first

{our official records, which are as fol-

OWS:





Age LbsfMiik 1,5385% Carriedea

Bu - Days





Test Began ttcr



2 yrs. 9210.4 745. 199



3 “ 2mo. 12744.8 . 1050. 153



4 “ 7 “ 14925.7 1213.6 175

“ 11 “ 15271.8 1222.6 245





Avcrgc butter-fat test 6.8 per cent.





Just think! Over 50,000 lbs. of milk.

Over 4,000 lb. of butter and 5 living

calves before her seventh birthday.

Isn’t she a Marvel? And a Jersey.

Yes she is certainly a Great Cow, bu?

not the only Great Jersey.





Write Sec’y Henrickson of Shelby,

Mich. for free Jersey literature.

There are others.





JERlEYs.





.7129 Profit Breed





"The Key to Dairy Proflu’ ' and ' 'Jeruy

Facts" —-.-two important books. telling

how farmers are making real profit today



with Jerseys—how anyone can do it any-

Where. Whether you are interested in >

one‘cow or a hundred,these books will

show you how to make money.

AFree—ri Write today



me



Club. 922

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Jersey Cattle

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The Wildwood Farm

Jerse Cattle. Majesty strain. Herd on. State accred-

ited] st. B. of M. testin constantly done. Bulls for

sale. ALVIN BALDE . Phone 143-5. Capac. Mich.





‘ E B

BUTTER BRED JBIli‘SOgSALlIELLS

CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM,

Silver Creek. Allegan County. Michigan.





 





F s I Jersey bull calves oi’ Majesty breedingfrom

or a 3 good producin stock. Herd on Govern.

ment “Accredited List." rite for grins and pedi ree

to O. A. TAGGETT, '2, ‘airgrove. Mic '.





Bull calves from

R. of M. cows.





Lillie Farmstead Jerseys

Coopersville. Mich.





COLON 0. LILLIE.





Jersey Bu118§f§fi85fi_°f M. dams $70 to

' NOTTEN FARM. Grass Lake, Mich.





J bulls for sale: From Marguerite's Premier

ersey a grandson of P0 99th and B. of M. dams.

SLII'I‘H & PAR ER. R. 4. Howell. Mich.





 





eri\dale Interested Owl No. 111311 heads nky herd

M bull calves from this reat sire and out of .0: M.





dams for sale. Leon E. aws. 11.6, Allegan. Mich.





Bulls for sale. Bred right and

erd under Federal and State 8- -

Saline, Mich.





egistered Jerse

riced~right.

erv sion. Raymond B. Bamer. B. 4.





BID EU ELL BUY A BULL

that will put weight on your dairv calves —the dili-

erence will soon Bay for the bull. ow sellingrfood

Scotch andficotc -toppedyearlings,reasonablyip cod.





We guarantee every animal to be a breeder. ederal

Test. One hour from Toledo. Ohio. N. Y. C. B. R.





BIDWELL‘STOCK FARM,

Box D,‘ Tecumseh, Michigan





Bloomdale Shortliorns





S I c ttle' at our rice! and breeding before buy-

1116: (figthubulls‘and legals: for sale. , . “

y , 0133 uses, 45.00.. . racism. Mich.





 





 





 





 





   





Midi





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Famine,





 





Theentireherd‘. all'fraiséa lgnvtlieiifdm. ' ' .





v“ a





. 'I

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Thirty Head; Hishlacass,nolste.m ~°= *





._,‘

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«Daughters of Johanna ’Korndyk‘e. Bngl,Pi§terfie Hengcrvel 7‘1"“





cena .DeKol,', Beauty Walker Pictertje Princez‘d, and'The ngoi’sut ,

ter Kings aswell as a num ‘ero‘f. grand daughters of :King Segis I’ontiac

All tuberculin tested and sold“ witha 60".to 90 da» retest“? ' ll. ‘



All females of breeding age guaranteed breeders. ,7 y- pnvrcge ,

One year’s time at 6% interestto responsible“ ‘art' B' '- ‘ >1 A

For catalog address » p» leg rmgyour





bank reference.





Albert E. Jenkins, Sale Mgr" EagleyMicfi.‘ .





 





John H. Johnson, Owner, Farmingtggmmh





 





* Choice individuals; ship; ed to you c. o. d. expresspaidga‘nd guaranteed

right or your money re unded. Jillstock registered in" buygrl9:.iflllmé-





J. CARL JEWETT,





0.1:c o A RS





Masen,nii¢h.'_





 





 





 





Buster.





CRANDELL’S PRIZE HOGS,





O. I. C.





all ages sired by Callaway Edd 1918 world’s grand champ." boar code. -C."‘

Schoolmaster 1919 world’s grand chain ion also Wonder Big Type'and‘Gitn‘t

Write your wants, all stock 5 ipped on approval. . , ,~ ,. ~. f. . ,





Hocsfig





Cass City; Mich.





 





 





 





 





The Maple’s Shorthornsl





Kirklevington Lad, b Im . Hartford

Welfare. In service, ulls orsale.





J. V. WISE, Gohloville, Mich.





Richland Sh—orthorns





Imp. _Lorne, Inip. Newton chem ionand

Sterling Supreme in Servxce. ’ e offer

for qmck sale: FiveaScotch Bulls, best

of breeding. Three whites at $1000 each One

roan at $500. one red at , . No females for

sale. Public sale Chicago Oct. 28th.

C. . PRESCOTT & SONS.

Tawas. City, Mich. ‘





BRANCH BCOdUN'fI‘Y FARM .

American Pulled Shorthorn Cattle





For Sale two splendid bulls now ready ref service.

and two younger ones that will be reudylfor. ight per-

vicP Jan. 15th. We also are ofi'ering at t is timgafew

bred cows and heifers. Herd headed by Victor ultan

and Sultan’s Gift. Prices very reasonable, write our

wants. Geo. E. Burdick. Mgr..' Goldwater, ich.





Milking Shonhoms t'td‘atttfn‘gasx.‘li"°m

O. M. X0 . . Mil ngton, Mich.





VALLEY VIEW FARMS_~_. f





Choice young Bhorthorn cows and heifers for sale at

all times. bred or open. or. a carioad. also a teWJyoung

bulls strong in Sultan lood. Write ..



S. E. PANGBORN & SON. Bad Axe, Mich.





 





EADOW Hills Shorthorns. Herd headed by Sil.

ver King. full brother of Lavender ' Sultan Pur-

due Universxty's great Sire. For sale females of all

ages, a few young bulls. Geo. D. Doster. Doster, Mich.





 





Two cows. 2 year old

Scnlch-lopmd Shorihnrns 1...... your“... heifer,

and bull calf Write for edigrees and rice.

SHOESMITH & BRICK R, East fansing, Mich.





‘ ' Shorthorns. Bull calves $100.00 each.

Mllklng Federal accredited Herds. Davidson

and Hall. Behind and Roland, Tecumseh. Mich.

neg. "Cd Pallfld cattle choice yioung bulls trams to 18





mo. old for so 9.

FRANK KEBLER, R. 1. Grand Ledge, Mich.





 





 





“5' Red Polled bull calves. from 3 mos. to 1 year

0 . sired by Famous Charmer 75% same blood as

Charmer 1919 International Granddhampion. Our herd

State and Federal tested.Westbrook Bros.,Ionia.Mich





HOGS





LARGE,





 





 





Berkshires





The largest junior yearling sow of anyrbrccd,~

at the 1920 International Livestock Exposi—

tion, was bred and exhibitedvby us. A won-

derful record for size at America’s greatest

show. We can furnish you foundation stock

that is right. Gilts bred for April and May

farrow. - . ~





W. H. EVERY





Manchester, 7 .. Mich--





 

 





 





wand J one farm





 





. , w. y rlingj _ and- .

younger-Sarina vies. 0115....st Fmfiiettpguhw ,





'Fi





Wy‘:





 

 

 





Registeredremaineeuiafiasbfitm for-A rll ,





red Berks ire gilts torA Ill furrow - ‘ I I .

Bhorn bulllim. One Hamppshire Mfimwgg-

shire pigs :10 a $15. M.G.Mosher a smtofiohnch.





Brnnkwater llumnzlérseys

BOARS——~Ready for Ste-nice

Bred Sam; and Gilts





TWrite its for Pi d P grog '

Mail orders a Specialtycegaagfactigzuagntecd.

BROOKWATER FARM Ann ' ' ‘

H. W. Manifold, Owner, J. Blgmgmfiaz





 





S_prln _‘pigs by Walt'e' ' i

_ Orion, irst Sr. Yearling ,

Detront. Jackaon,Gd. Rapids and Saginaw 1919





Phillips Bros,Riga,M-ich.

DUROC JERSEY SWINE





for sale 2 yr. old herd bOars e ll _

pl . also bred sow d ’ “ ‘8 1395.13 and boar

prizes. ”Come and3 :01; t ilts, {Ni-“e {0"st and





em. .. .

THOS. UNDERHILL & BON.‘ Salem. Mich.





Spatialflflur For December we will take'orders tor ,





1920 spring gilts bredrfor ~



:gggvgdlgglll :12 :5aotgaich excelvl‘egt breedinghéli‘kg tgpbre

n . - ‘



your own selection atggce. It. Or come and make





RUSH sacs. Romeo. Mich.





so'ws'and gilts bred in “alt ,

Duror‘ who has sired more let andIani xiii; 23:22

at the State Fair in last 2 years than any 0t er Duroc

boar. Everyone will be a money maker for the





buyer. Cat. and rice list. /

NEWTON BARNHXRT. ,St. Johns. Mich.

- ‘ spring boars. A to l

DUROCS for Scatter-row atbaw ‘difinriggsd

_ w. o. AYLOR. M lan, Mich:





Duroc Bears read for, service. ‘Bired

Kins number 169259 b Jacks 0133.3; 0'10“





son 0 th

Jacks Orion King 2nd all large tgpse10 3% heavgmlgojii:





out of good sows. . ,

THE JENNINGS FARMS, Bailey, Mich.





Duroc Jerseys Bo‘ars 3°” “3 PM lam heavy

prices. Write or better coniofihdd 33° M mypthe

F. J. DgiODT





Monroe. .\ i ich





”moo Jersey boars £80m 8 mo. to -1 ~yr. old. Select ‘





un‘g sows mat d to in insulin ‘ ' ‘

type. rices reasonable. ship ed ‘01:“: “Md ”tidied;

guaranteed right. W.E. m rump, “mm-Mich,





O . , . .

Write Me figfncg I have dust-what you want

9” boars “in? dlfi for sexice?n.e rezistered Duroc Jer.





.Mirns. L. a, 505, ‘Btjrana, men.





ounoc JERSEYS





_ Carey U. Edmonds, Hastings. Mich-





DUROC JERSEYS non-w n. ,





bv Mich. ath





tinder. E. D. HEYDENBEREi Wanna. Mich:





. « ‘Durocs. We

llmn'fgifififif :‘i‘i‘ 9.8mm film;

faction guaranteed. 0.?1 l e, motions. Satis-





5'8. 1m... .6“... all“. 2:. Win. war???

c'im‘mpimfx yr. _°'.9utbt :0ch so; ' “Id

gill-$3?“ on action guarant Alec fall pigs.





 

 

 





 





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Foster, ,Pavilion. Mich.





d

~‘t1relted. . - - - _

- {35 Jan" ”nihilism. W. 7. " 0K





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nms‘ Cholera y
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. emphativally these past dozen years.





the little ones. ”’ We wish to disclaim





 





1 gerty. of the society, gave publicity to





- Tipton; John W. Smith, Port Huron.





1,1Hn‘m9 published interview President





 





In the counties aboe

will be able to contro the county ref-

erendum. Kent county country people

have had a certain lesson in natural

history inipreSsed upon them rather





It is that little lesson, so comforting

to minorities that “the big fishes eat





here our belief that it is the intent of

the organization and men calling for

the amendment, to bring about. a cer-

tain situation whereby they can, as

organizations or citizens, dominate the

government of their respective coun-

ties. However, that moment that you

take away from a minority unit‘any

measure of local. self-government .

which it has enjoyed, an attempt will

be made by selfish groups and individ-

uals to arrogate to themselves more

authority over that minority unit.

“The question has been asked in.

Kent county, ‘Are you afraid to trust

Grand Rapids tobe fair with the rest

of the county ?’ Assuredly we are, not

because we distrust the thousands of

fair~minded citizens in Grand Rapids,

but because of the fact that in Grand

Rapids there still remains groups and

individuals who are able frequently to

successfully dispute with the advocates

of good government the policies which

shall govern the city. As long as that

condition exists the townships of the

county desire to have, through their

supervisors, personal representation

upon such a vital matter as tax ap-

portionment, not to mention numerous

other important matters. They regard

this representation as the keystone of

their local self-governing rights, and

they will never willingly surrender it.

“That there are grave weaknesses in

our present system is admitted. The

newly organized Township Voters’

League of Kent County proposes to

consult the best minds of the state and

to submit at the incoming session of





I o you'put

in file





FEED, yes. But——

WHAT KIND is it?





T the fairs and dairy shows, many Of the

most successful dairymen tell us they

get more dollars’ worth Of milk out of a

dollar’s worth of BUFFALO CORN GLUTEN

FEED, fed mixed with. Wheat bran or mill-

feed, oats, etc. , than any feed they know Of.

They probably never had anybody Offer a reason

why BUFFALO CORN GLUTEN FEED makes milk the

way it does. They did not care WHY so much, as

long as they got the milk. But the very high diges-

tibility, in. large measure, accounts for it.

See that there is plenty of BUFFALO CORN GLUTEN FEED

mixture in the feed trough in front of your cows-and you

will understand why RIIFFALO CORN GLUTEN FEED is so





well thought of on thOu-

. sands of real dairy farms.





 





   

   

 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   





,Corn Products I





New York MANUFACTURERS or





«go





 





, _ _ BUFFALO

the legislature a bill that W111 remedy GLUTEN-FEED

many, if not all, of these weaknesses,

but which will at the same time not

even endanger, let alone annihilate, the

remnants of local self-government now FEED UP! Your dealer





should have BUFFALO CORN

GLUTEN FEED. If he does

not, write us for litera-

ture and sample, giving

us his name and address.





enjoyed by rural residents who have

a large city in their county.



“These are not the illy—considered

sentiments of a zealous correspondlent.

They represent a consensus of Opinion

as arrived at by a large number of '

sober-minded Kent county men, who

recognize the gravity of the situation,

and who have thoroughly familiarized

themselves with the issues involved."



EDGAR R. COCHRUN.





 





 





 





 





 





Write to

National Starch Co.,

606 Ford Bldg" Detroit. Mich.





Jan. 20, 1921, At One O’clock





Will Sen Entire Herd of





Registered Shorthorn Cattle

and Percheron Horses





consisting of ”cows and heifers 2 bulls of the following females

ALEXANDRINA MYSIE and YOUNG MARY’S





. ONE IMP. PERCHERON STALLION





this horse was Imp. by Bell Bros, Wooster, Ohio m 1914; color, black,

ten yrs. old and a sure foal getter. One span of 2 year old fillies

and one span of geldings coming 4 and 5.





.Sale will be held 2 miles north and 1/2 miles west of Allen rain or shine.





All trains will be met at Allen. Parties Coming to Litchfield 01' Jones

ville will be met by calling farm.





JOHN SOUTHWORTH, Prop.

Auc. Andy Adams





o I C Serviceable boar’a A few extra

‘ ° ' gfiod boars at farmers’ prices

W.M MANN. Dansville. Mich





 





STATE FAlR SCANDAL.





 





, ICHIGAN people were startled

M last week by the report of a split

in the board of directors of the

Michigan State Agricultural Society,

under whose control the state fair is

operated, when President J. S. Hag-





the resignation of eight of its twenty

directors as expressing their disapprov-

al of the action of the board in voting

George W. Dickinson, secretary—manag-

er Of the fair, 21 cash bonus of $10,000

in addition to his salary of $15,000. The.

directors who tendered their resigna-

tions to President Haggerty were: A.

E. Stevenson, Port Huron; Jacob De-

Geus, Alicia; H. W. NOrton, Jr., East

Lansing; H. H. Halliday, Clinton;

Frank Coward, Bronson; Charles T.

Prescott,_Tawas City; Charles Evans,





 

 

 

 

   

 





 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

   





Following this development Gover-

nor Groesbeck, in his message to the

legislature, took cognizance of the sit~

uati‘On by advocating the taking over,O

and operation of the fair by the state.





 

 

 

 





 





‘ . HOGS





mag: 1.0:; ling-if“ {1:11 boar wgt. 423.thin two ling. fgfi ’

r 0

° “9,001,“... 1,129“: 0.1.3C





8th:" comet-30d

l‘tn a. Phone 124.. .uflchu so. Nashville.





timed, as stating that o. .10 c Guam bred for April gloomy farm





Q“; We 3'0 - 'Isv°'.'o‘."a'ir°‘n "‘“5'1153? mason. Mich. _





 





 





Fall pig's by 0.0 Big Galloway have size

8and quality and are priced ri.ght

. J..THOMP8()N Rockford. Mich.





O I . C Bred Gilts for Mar. and Ant furrow

‘ ‘ ' also a few choice nor-vice . m.

LEAF STOCK FARM, Monroe. Mich





 





 

 





 

 

 

 

   

 





 

 





 





 





Like This





the original big producers





 





I HAVE started thousands of breeders on The road no

successrdl can helpyou. l wanht to lace ogielhog from

t o a a to

m..." "531% “”11...” iavfiiymw'ffi'ii'li £ng in..." “3‘53. mint"... .fi‘,

sooth- OkXQWritol myml More Money from Hogs.





o. I. atrium, “R p D 10 ram-.1111, moms-i





Central—Mich? O. l. C.





Swine Breeders Ass’n.





Every





 





 





 





Hogs of all ages Of popular blood lines.

sale guaranteed by association





, DR. H. w. NOBLES,

Sales Mgr. Coral, Mich.





Strictly Big ’1‘ ypewlth

For Sale 0. LC. Swine, qua”... navy, a g...

good boars and gilts left of same type and blood lines.

that won for us at Ohio and Mk higan State Fairs.

Priced very cheap. Write 8 1st sbefore you buy.

NF WMAN'S STOCKF

R. l, MARLE’I‘TE, lVIIOH.





 





 





“I c' Big Typo Gilts bred for Mar. find April

3- fan-on. Hoar- all ages. Write me for prices.

G. P. BEDWS, Mason. Mich.





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





50 HEAD 50





Big Type Poland Chinas





at the larm of





JAN. 28th, 1921





Conveyance: from Albion A. M. 0! sale

‘ Sale under cover.





Auctioneers Ed. Bowers

Goo. McKim





Albion, Mich. Parma, Mich.

Write for Catalogue





Will lnman





 





closing out sale of big ty pe Poland China hogs, v1 hich

Jrepresents the work of 2.3 years of construe tive

breeding. Everything goes: including our three great

herd boars. Mich. Buster" by ' Giant Buster" , “A

Giant" ' Butler' 14 Big Bob ' Two of the best yearling

prospects in Michigan great length. bi bone

Come get your pick. .l no. 0. Butler, Portion .Mich





 





La? type Poland China 5 spring boars ready to

gesh . Everything immune from ( holera

A. A. FELEK





L. S. P. C.





 





ll. this fall. Also a grandson of The (llansman and

Harrison Big Bob. H. 0. SW ARTZ St hook raft Mic-.11





 





Spring gilts bred for March and



Big 80b "aShdon April and some sows bred to Big



Bob his sire was champion of the wor ld. his dum' e site

was Grand Champion of Iowa State Fair



(11‘ i. GAR R.NANT Eaton liapids, hiich.





L. T. P. C.





 





 





 





5 ring beam from $40 to $.10 and gilts tho same price.



ummer and fall pigs 325911011. ’lhe firs t chi-ck will

bring you th1 first (lion 1'

CLINE, Addiess F. '1. Brut, St. Louis. Mich.





BIG TYPE POLANDS





 





Olnnsmnn and his son The Clansboy 'ihoy are great.

Immune and re istered. Come or write.

afev. first class. 200 ll). hours left also





herd. Come and see or w

E. R. LEONARID R. 3, St. Louis, Mich





 





' to ship Something good at a right





price. \V. J. HAGF LSHAW Augusta, M'u h.





 





Poland China boars Long. heavy boned

Big Type spring boars. Sired by Brewbaker do

Son' 8 great heard boar Gertsdnle '1' 1mm. Stmk all

double immuned. II. 0. OVEN ()vid Mich.





 





Big Type P. 0. some Ivory choice boars double 1m-

muno. out 1100 lb. sire and mammoth sows from

Iowa 51 greatest herds. E,J. Mathewson, Bun-Oak “in h.





 





bred for 840. anal-wees Satin ction.





ROVER, Akron, Mich.





 





Poland China Bred sows and giltB at bargain prices.

also sprin hours and fall pigs. either sex

&.Y DE FISHER. R. 3, St Louis. Mich





Big 11111th Poland China: 22.,‘°l'ii“ag‘é§f°i’i;a Elli

21°“ ail ACMGARDNEB, n. 2 Middleville, Mich_





O. Bred sows. F all pigs singly or in pairs. Also 8.

' C. Minorca cockore all big Type of the best of





 





"nghngfl boawrs and fail Ipigsn at a bargain

WSNYDEC 11.4. St. Johns. Mich.





YORKSHIRE 3.... a...

for senice.



Yorkshirea cross makes an excellent market hog.



Waterman dc Wateunanjnckard Rd Ann Arbor. Mich.





SHEEP.





Wool-linden Shropshire Rams. d,2§:;‘.,:f,f‘;‘3§.l¥;

bred priced right. A. H. FOSTER, Allegan. Mich.





Registered Shropshire Ewes





and rams. Jno. Grieve, R. 3, Fowlerville, Mich.





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Shropshires P.2°‘°.t.§':i"m.“m.o"i“1..’i‘.£:





 





 





 





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Additional Stock Adn on Page 31





 





Big Inn}, some fall boar pigs good enough to in- -ad any 2





Hampshire gilts now ready to ship. Spring "





jcombinatinn Bred Sow Sale;





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AMP R.NO.2 Manchester, Mich. ,





a few choice boars j

at. farmers prices. '

Its bred to Black Giant. one of the best pigs out of ‘





70 head of Poland (‘hinas at prii ate sale. Am oflering





HA A‘li'l FULCHEH& 1





Brod gilts for sale Also a few choice fall pigs by The ,





l‘lSlJ'Jl HILE, R. 6, Ioniu. IVIich. 7





L. T. P. C Spring boars and gilts now ready "





Poland Chinas bargain 875 buys a bred gilt '

Big Type and a 251.1 lb. spring boar also choice gilts l

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breeding. Satisfaction guar. R. W. Mills, Saline, Mich. _,_,





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as the probabilities are that bottom last year.

for the season has been uncovered.





January 11, 1921. FEEDS





Wheat. Demand for all the principal by-



- __ ' 1. ; Ma product feeds will remain small .and



slgilrofilg gaggigoaigegr: 39mixe§ price changes have been mostly in a 1,

$1.96, ' *downward direction. As the winter

' '- ... . . _ 1 . No. 2 progresses supplies in consuming sec-

hag}; 1§?§g.% Ngiaiclklldfiisl. 94 Ag ’ tions are being depleted to some extent





23@_24c; ‘heavy hens 28@_Qc 113 do; .-

are holding fer higher prices. Another 20 c'; ~roosters 18c; geesef‘.28@3Qc;

cargo of Danish arrived and~ others due s 32@34c; turkeys 38@400.£-"*‘ :

are reported afloat. Chicago—North WOOL

ern whites $1.25@1.35. . “ p . . p ‘

Detroit.~Michigan round whites, No. Although prices remain low, a.n-i_n-~

$2.25@2.50 per ISO-lb. sack. - creasing volume of wool_gis passing.

7 * from the,.hands of producers 'intdithe

BUTTER - , hands of dealers and manufacturers.

Heavy receipts of foreign butter at The receiit government auction held at





’LGrdwers' in many sections





   

 

 





 





 

   

   

   

 

   

   

   

 





but not enough to cause any anxiety,eastern and western ports during the Boston gave some encouragement to

. c°r"' over future requirements so that pur- preceding week cast their shadow up- those who believe that prices are now ,

Detroit.~(3asli No. 3 yellow. new chases are made only from hand to on the butter market of the past week. on bed-rock. All the offering Was sold. g,





 

 

 





75c; No. 4 yellow, new 720.

Cliicago.»~No. 3 \mixed 69c;

yellow 72@74c.





‘ mouth. Open weather continues in all

No. 2 sections of the country, materially re-

ducing consumption. A slight increase

in activity on the part of flour mills is

increasing the available

'wheat feeds.





Strength was manifested early in the

session and slight advances Were made

at some of the principal distributing

points, but reports of large shipments

supply of of New Zealand as well as California

butter from the Pacific Coast to east-

Detroit.——Bran $38; ' standard mid— ern cities caused a sharp break at Chi~

dlings $36@38; flour .middlings $3860 cago. Larger receipts, the spring—like

40; coarse corn meal $34; cracked corn weather, and a prospective increase in

$35@36; chop $34. the make were other factors. Another





Detroit—“Immediate and prompt are HAY cargo of Danish'was reported on the

wav to arrive about January 22.,Fancy





steady at $4 per cwt. . . . ' _ I. .



Chicago.-—~VVhite beans steady. Iland- The effect 0t the reduction “1 freight butter was BSDGCIRHY abundant and

picked beans choice to fancy $4,250, l‘atoS on hay' from. northwestern pro- has not been as strong at Chicago as

4.50 red kidney beans $9@9.50 per (111011.15; 39090“? “as not been Percepu‘ medium grade butter. The market for

cwt., ” lilelln a big igcrfiasecf recleipts but Sl'oralge butter wag, relatively {ll-1111.112?



. . _» . 3 ' w - (ea ers are ap re enswe an 'CODSUIIl-_o tle' wee . eceipfs are 5 1g y

peie‘gegogg'; (gallfiganlfmdggsw£31??? ers are waiting until the heavier move- heavier than a week ago at the folur

red kidney $9...25@950 ' V merit al‘l'IVGS. The fact that demand principal Inaykets. The {market tone





 

 





Folreign cross-breds and low quarter-

bloods predominated, some of the lat-

ter selling below,.200 on the scoured

basis, chiefly to carpet manufac'urers.

Some grades were slightly lower,’while '

others showed an advance of five" to

ten, per cent over the November auc-‘

tion. Thereris a possibility that the

Australian auctions: Will be'disc‘ontin-

ued'until prices -;a-re higher and. private

sales in that country made since the.

last auction series registered a slight

advance. Woolen goods markets re-

main unsettled but an increasing vol-

ume of orders is expected soon. Stocks

of,wool in the hands of mills are known

to be below’ normal. The prospect that

the emergency tariff which includes

wool, will pass the senate" is consider-





 

 

   

 

 





d'ats. ,

I Detroit—‘Cash No. 2 White 51c; No.

3- White 491/12c; No. 4 white 461/2ce

Chicago.——No. 2 white 47@47'—‘/zc;

No. 3 white 451/2@46140. -





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is small and that heavy





R _ shipments was decidedly unsettled at the close. ed favorable and sellers are na‘urally

, . . ye. 0 .. 1 ~1 W011“ result In a Sharp break "1 Prices Prices upon 92 score butter as quoted disposed to wait for its influence.

I)etion.-— Lash ho. a lie $ .1 - has discouraged many western produc- by the bureau of markets on January CHEESE K

Seeds. ers from taking immediate advantage 3 were as follows: Chicago 490; New





Following the advance in Wisconsin l'

country cheese markets prices in dis-

tributing centers have been firm to

higher. The volume of orders increas-

ed but the amount of wholesale busi-





])Pll‘0ll..—~Pl‘llll’3 red clover cash and of the reduced freight. rate. Just w

March $13.50; "alsike $10.30; linlothy tlhe outdccme is to be1 is glecei‘timt, gut 54c per pound-

‘3IO. tie on ence avors tie e let i a 83’

$ 'i‘)(lle(10.—I’l‘illle red clover, cash and prices have not yet struck bottom. EGGS AND POULTRY

January $13.50; alsike $16.50; timothy BEANS Notwithstanding the weakness in the





hat York 531/20; Boston 540; Philadelphia





3; 45 . ‘ . _ ‘ ness is not ye‘: up to normal. Prices

,3_ Hay The retail trade in beans has been llllalll‘glfn 1(1)):icglsosclf gigs; Engdlligtusltf; upon held cheese have been firm and



Y . . L ~. . ‘ slow in the east and easy to steady at le , . _ noticeable advances have occurred.

60200: lligtfllglgfiligegzgggzflsfistfilgaldd£12: midwesiern markets. Current receipts hale advanced during the past new The amount 0f fresh cheese arriving





. . -. have been ample in taking care of all days- In bOth the supply ,IS 331“}“9?

gghyggliiIEZ’iioglg. 1$§2%§3 91;? 533i? wants. The demand consists chiefly {Shin usual 'at thisfseasmti otl {.119 “$311;

$1; 5001:16' wheat and oat ’straw $1350 of calls from the jobbers and prices Eh Bll'cgslfiltlaiastod agligus 0t :35 ”me

01;; er ton in carlots at Detroit are usually in buyers’ favor. Trading of. c Q ‘5 ‘ ‘ ,9. e T: ff "t f

"I p ' in Kotenaslii is dull, while the market “.1“ “0'; be ““13“““3: 9,9 .et 0



WHEAT for red kidneys is easy.' high prices for eggs is shown in the



Not only is the wheat situation be-





. ' ' t of a cargo from Australia. on

POTATOES 1 Bee”)

coming stronger statistically day by





the Pacific Coast. part of which reach—

_ , _ , ’otato prices sagged during the past ed Chicago where the eggs graded as

day, ,bUt the tact ”silicosis an “1' week and again reached the season’s firsts and sold considerably below the

creasmg amount 01: attention. The low point. Northern round white stock

number of market operators who





domestic market. With average prices

, . _ _ _ , be— at shipping points quo‘ed at $1.106}; upon beef steers and hogs at Chicago

lieve that higher Ill'lCt‘S Will obtain lat- 1.25





is comparatively small. There are

reports that some of the condensaries

will be reopened and this has been a

factor in the strength of the market

during the week but since most of

these were turning their milk supplies

into butter this is unlikely to prove a.

great help to cheese prices. A more

potent influence was the arrival of the

new year and the period of inventory

taking after which buyers are expected

to come into the market on a more lib-





 





 





' :liquidation passes.





, _ ; the Chicago carlot market is quot- about 9142c per pound the fact that oral scale. Trade sentiment is o t‘-

er m the season “5 much 1n0re_liumer- ed at $1.25@1.35. Shipments have in- poultry prices remain from 25611280 per mistic . p 1

one than two months ago. It is more '





creased again part1

warm weather, but are running consid

erably lighter than at the same rim





and more clear that our wheat supply

is now virtually down to a domestic

basis; The visible supply is gradually

decreasing, totaling now 43,063,000





y as a result of the

- troit eggs, fresh candied 63(‘0‘670. Live

e poultry, spring chickens 300; legliorns





pound is an exceptional showing. De-





APPLES





.Apple markets have been steady to

slightly lower during the past week at





 





bushels, a loss of 2,108,000 bushels for

the week. Export clearances for the

last week reported were 9,500,000 bush—

els of wheat and 199,000 barrels of

flour. The future course of the mar-





 





Livc Stock Market Service





shipping points and in the principal

consuming markets. Reports that stOr-

age stock is showing over—ripeness has

been a disturbing influence.





 





 





ket depends to a considerable extent

upon the anxiety of Argentine produc-

ers to get rid of their surplus.





CORN ‘





Beginning with the first market day

in January receip s of corn have shown





DETROIT

Cattle. '

Market opened dull, closing 25@500

lower. .





a big increase. The midewinter niove- fiiigglegaézriteaefig leiters$ 900(1) 3'38

ment is gradually getting under way Best, cows " ‘ ‘ €500}, 7‘00

on an old—fashioned scale. Heaviest Han lv 1i htbutcllers """ 5‘75“) 625

shipments are coming from Iowa and l' h(tvblfchers 5.0060 5‘”)

Western points. Illinois and Indiana are Dlgt Vlvs ‘ ' ' ‘ ' ‘ ' ‘ ’ " 6'00?) 7‘60

also selling in liberal amounts. De- Be? 100‘ cows """""" ' 5000? 5'50

mand for com continues sub—normal, anfl:1%‘n cows """""" 3.256“ 13'75

terminal elevators being the principal Canners """"" 55043 €00

buyers, as the cash price is on a car- Clioice‘bulls """"""" 5'50@ 7'00

rying charge when compared with the B 10 na bulls. ' ' ' ' ' ' ‘ ‘ ‘ ". 5100(0) 6'00

futures. There is a small volume of Stem}? bulls """""" 4.0060 5'00

sales for export and corn industries Feeders ’ """"""" 7‘00“) 800

are gradually resuming opelrations al- Stockers """' ' ' ‘ ', ' " 5‘00@ 15.95

though they are now on on y about a ‘ . ‘ """ """ ' '“



fifty per cent basis. Eastern demand Mllkels and splingeis. ' ' '$ 50@ 90

is comparatively slight. The corn mar- . Veal Calves. \



ket promises to continue dull and drag- Market IS dull and 500 lower-



gy until the heavy winter movement Best .................... $14.00@14.50

passes the crest, after which more ()tllel‘s .................. 8.00@10.50

buoyancy may be expected. The de-





Hogs.

tailed government figures by states Mixed hogs 100 higher; pigs are 250





show that the seven surplus corn higheit -

states had 1,706,982,000 bushels, com~ Mixed hogs $935

pared with 1,436,948,000 bushels last Pigs ...................... - ...... 9.75





Sheep and Lambs.





year and 1,832,000,000 bushels in 1912, _

Market on lambs 25c lower; sheep





the previous record crop.





steady.

OATS Best lambs ............. $10.50@10.;5

Oats will probably continue to shad- Fair lambs .............. 8.00@ 9. 5

ow the fluctuations of the corn mar- nght to common “3 ----- 4-00@ 6-00

ket. Barley has gradually worked Fair to good sheep ..... . 4.00@ 4.50

.down more nearly to a parity With Guns and common ...... 1.50@ 2.50





other grains.





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CHICAGO





, . ‘ - Hogs. ~

‘ Seed markets are working into 3. Estimated receipts oday-are 26,000;

'stronger position as the planting sea- holdover 11.008. Mar et 10@15c.high-

8011 comes closer and the periold of er. Bulk ‘of sales $9.10@9.35; tops at

The markets have $9.50; heavy 250 lbs up medium, good

slightly but reacted and choice $9630.25; medium .200 to.250

past week. Sellers lbs medium. good and choicejaQOQ)"

over such low spots 9.36; slight-150‘ to 200 lbs commonfifn





SEEDS





“ been advancing

his middle or the

can afford‘to wait,





   





   





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Markets for January 12, 1921.





‘ choice $10@12; feeder steers common,





nflxed $10.@10.25; Others $10.25





 

 





DETROIT cmr MARKET.





A very light supply of produce is

being offered on the Detroit market

and the movement of most products is

slow. Track sales to jobbers reported

by the United States Bureau of Mar-

kets are as follows: .Potatoes $2.256)

2.35 for Michigan round White stock in

150-lb. sacks; apples $4.50@5 per bbl.

for New York Greenings; onions 750@

$1 for 100-lb. sacks; cabbage $20@22

a ton; carrots 7563900 abushel; horse-

radish $4@6 a bushel; parsnips 75c@

$1 a bushel; squash $1.25@1.50 a' bush-

el; turnips $1.25@2va bushel; popcorn

$2 a bushel. ‘ ,





“EAT MORE





dium, good and choice at $920@9.50;

light lights 130 to 150 lbs common, me-

dium, good and choice at $9.25@9.50;

heavy packing sows 250 lbs up smooth

$8.25@8.75; packing sows 200 lbs up

rough $8@8.25; pigs 130 lbs down me

dium, good and choice $9.25fij‘9.50.

Cattle.



Estimated receipts today are 8,000.

Market strong to 250 higher; calves

lower. Beef steels medium and heavy

weight 1100 lbs up choice and prime at

$11.25W1225; doinedium and good at

$8.75@11.25; do common $7.65@8.75;

ligllt weight 1100 lbs down good and

choice $10@11.75: do common and me-

dium $7.40@10; butcher cattle, heifers,

cmnmon, medium, good and choice at

$5@10; cows, common, medium, good

and choice “50638.50; bulls, bologna

and beef $4.75@7.60; canners and cut-

ters, cows and heifers $3@4.60; do can-

nei- steers $4@5.75; veal calves, light

and handyweight, medium, good and,





MEAT" CAMPAIGN.





 





 





 





A meeting of representatives 013 live

stock men with delegates train the

meat packers and live stock exchanges

of the country has been called to. con- » ‘

sidera plan for increasing the demand

for meat and for offsetting the vicious

propaganda against the consumption»

of meat. The meeting_will be held at

the Saddle and Sirloin Club, Union

Stock Yards, Chicago, at 10:00 a. m.,

February 11. — '





comma LIVE s'rocK SALES.





medium, good and choice at $6.75'@9;

stocker steers common, medium, good

and choice $5@8.40; stocker cows and

heifers common, medium, good and

choice $4.25@6.

Sheep and Lambs. -

Estimated receipts today are 13,000.

Lambs strong to 250 higher; sheep are

strong. Lambs 84 lbs down, medium,

good, choice and prime $10.50@12; do

culls and commotn at $8@10; spring

lambs medium, good, choice and prime

at $8.50@10:- ewes medium, good and

choice $4.25@6; yearling‘wethers, me— .

dium, goodgand choiceL$8.25@10.50.

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Holstelnsr—February'3, John H. John-

son, Farmington, Michigan. '



Shorthorns and Horses.—-Januar3£ 20,

John Southworth, Allen, Michigan.



Poland-China.—January 28, Gecrge'Mc-

Kim, Albion, Michigan , '





 





,HOg prices are steady ‘to a shade ‘

higher, heavy hogs bringing $9.75@10;fi ,0,» in”;

. p @1050, MW

Lambs are , ”a“ .5





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page ,85).





salary and bonus voted Mr. Dickinson,





peal on their. part to the legislature

- for financial aid for the fair.

For the past two years the legisla-

ture has appropriated $75,000 annually

for the support of agricultural fairs in

Michigan. Of this amount $24,000 per

year has gone to the state fair and the

balance to the other agricultural fairs

held in the state. In 1917 and 1918

the state contributed $16,000 per year

to the support of the state fair. It is

said that the profits from the 1920 fair

were $176,000. After payment of sal.

aries the-profits, are used for the mak-

ing of permanent improvements.

Mr. Dickinson’sfitatement.

Following these developments, Mr.

Dickinson made the following state-

ment:





”To the end that the operations’ of

the Michigan State Fair may be an

open book to the public, I invite an in-

vestigation of its affairs by the legis-

lature.





 





 





.“Since the management of the fair





 





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R.K.TIRES





has become a desirable position, anum-

Iber of men for personal reasons have

kept up a continual guerilla warfare

of rumors and suppositions against my-

self. I welcome this opportunity for

a show-down.



“The public should understand that

the resignations of eight of our direct-

ors were not spontaneous. The work

of inducing members of our beard to

resign has been the result of a con-

certed and organized movement on the

part of disappointed individuals. Of

the eight resignations, three have been

written on the same typewriter, appar-

ently at the same time. Four of the

directors who resigned ‘in protest’ vot-

ed for the bonus.



“As to my salary and bonus: I came

to the fair eight years ago at a. salary

of $5,000. The fair for many years had

been a financial failure. It had no

credit and a tremendous debt. The

profits of the fair since I have taken

charge have increased each year, the

old debt has been cleared away, and





 





 





 





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Frozen Direct from fishery to you. Herrin

round per lb. 4%c, lar e dressed 5%c; Bayfis

(Suckers) dressed 4543c;

dressed headless 9c; Pike





send for complete price list.





 





moked Bluefina 10 lb.

basket $1.00; Pickerel winter caught round 7c,

winter caught 11c,

dressed headless 15c. Remit with order or





 





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’ . lei..-,memherahtp;.d~ritrea thh can and





my various increases in salary, step

by step, have not been as large as the

increase in the profits of the fair. The

various rates of pay given me have

been $5,000 fdr three years, $6,000 for

one year, $7,500 for one year, $10,000

for two years, and one year ago, in

December, 1919, I was tendered a five-

year contract at $15,000. Each of these

increases in pay has been wholly with-

out solicitation on my part, and all

have been by unanimous action of the

board.



“The bonus offered me this year was

vdted unanimously also, not only with-

out solicitation on my part but during

my absence. I told the board later I

thought we should use the money in

other ways. I prized, the bonus very

highly as a testimonial, but I have had

no regard whatsoever for the cash in-

volved, and as a matter of fact, I have

not cashed it, and do not intend to.”

Mr. Dickinson’s statement was ac-

companied by a stenographic report of

the minutes of the board meeting at

which the bonus was voted. This re-

port ‘shows that four of the directors

who have since resigned were present,

and that the motion for the bonus was

passed unanimously.



On the matter of the state taking

over the fair, Mr. Dickinson said:

.“When the fair was poor and strug-

gling we never heard of the state as-

suming its burdens. Now that it has





and equipment to some political board‘l

to be created for the purpose. It would

indeed be a rich plaything for any set

of politicians, but we do not intend

turning it over. We shall keep right

on runningthe state fair.”



Mr. Haggerty has been quoted as be-

ing in accord with the directors who

have tendered their resignations, in his

views on the bonus voted to Mr. Dick-

inson and the desirability of the taking

over and operation of the fair by the

state. Hecould not be reached to get

a direct expression.





 





. .Eifty Indiana counties have complet-





v'it-WaS the concensus of." opinion among

- thedirectorswho Iliad filed their-resig-.

nations With him that. in-view of the





425,000 in all,-»this precluded any ap-





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Rose Comb Reds 20c each. From

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